Title: Severed heads and martyred souls
Description: "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.
Subjects: Capital punishment in literature, French literature, History and criticism, Romanticism, French literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Romanticism, france, Capital punishment
Places: France
Time periods: 19th century