TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poulosky,Laura
TI  - Severed heads and martyred souls: crime and capital punishment in French romantic literature 
SN  - 9780820463537
U1  - 840.9355 23
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - P. Lang
KW  - French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism -- France
KW  - Capital punishment in literature
KW  - French literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - French literature, history and criticism, 19th century
N2  - "Severed Heads and Martyred Souls examines the Romantics' obsession with capital punishment, analyzing its literary treatment in texts by Hugo, Lamartine, Eugene Sue, Dumas the elder, Vigny, Balzac, Stendhal, and Nodier.The book explores the effects of death sentences on character and plot development, the language of the texts, and the overt or implicit moral and political messages of each author, and successfully demonstrates that reflecting upon the French Romantics' treatment of capital punishment is both important to understanding the Romantic movement, and instructive for current debate on the issue of capital punishment."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -