The guillotine and the terror

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The guillotine and the terror

Daniel Arasse ; translated fron the French by Christopher Miller

(Penguin books)

Penguin, 1991

Other Title

La Guillotine et l'imaginaire de la Terreur

Uniform Title

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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  • NCID
    BA2440836X
  • ISBN
    • 0140108300
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    192 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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