Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty

by Ève Morisi

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Capital Letters sheds new light on how literature has dealt with society's most violent legal institution, the death penalty. It investigates this question through the works of three major French authors with markedly distinct political convictions and literary styles: Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Albert Camus. Working at the intersection of poetics, ethics, and law, ve Morisi uncovers an unexpected transhistorical dialogue on both...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0810141515

ISBN13:9780810141513

Release Date:March 2020

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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