Losing our heads : beheadings in literature and culture /
Janes, Regina, 1946-
Losing our heads : beheadings in literature and culture / Regina Janes. - 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : Head matters -- Introduction to a beheading -- Bouncing heads and scaffold dramas -- Power to the people : his pike and her guillotine -- At the sign of the Baptist's head -- African heads and imperial decolletage : beheadings in the colonies -- Epilogue : Craniate origins and headless futures.
9780814743614 (e-book)
Beheading--History.
Beheading in literature.
Executions and executioners in art.
Electronic books.
HV8552 / .J34 2005
306.9
Losing our heads : beheadings in literature and culture / Regina Janes. - 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : Head matters -- Introduction to a beheading -- Bouncing heads and scaffold dramas -- Power to the people : his pike and her guillotine -- At the sign of the Baptist's head -- African heads and imperial decolletage : beheadings in the colonies -- Epilogue : Craniate origins and headless futures.
9780814743614 (e-book)
Beheading--History.
Beheading in literature.
Executions and executioners in art.
Electronic books.
HV8552 / .J34 2005
306.9