Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty Volume 33

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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:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810141523

ISBN13:9780810141520

Release Date:March 2020

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty Volume 33

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