The guillotine and the terror
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Bibliographic Information
The guillotine and the terror
（Penguin books）
Penguin, 1991
- Other Title
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La Guillotine et l'imaginaire de la Terreur
- Uniform Title
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Guillotine et l'imaginaire de la terreur
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Note
Originally published: London : Allen Lane,1989
First published as "La guillotine et l'imaginaire de la terreur" by Flammarion, 1987
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the guillotine and its role in the French Revolution, concentrating as much upon the social and psychological contexts - the "mythology" and theatre of the guillotine - as upon the history and transformations of the guillotine's invention. The book offers a thesis which argues, for example, that the guillotine acts as an enlightenment machine, as the begetter of a new physiology of the headless body politic, as an aristocratic/democratic art of dying, and as the source of a new kind of criminological portraiture.
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