Capital letters : Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty /
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Three writers and a punishment
- New abolitionist poetics: Hugo's Le dernier jour d'un condamn?
- The death penalty, from representation to expression
- Pain and punishment: the guillotine's torture
- Words that kill in Baudelaire
- Prose praising sacrifice: Hugo, Maistre, and beyond
- Poeticized slaughter? Execution in Les fleurs du mal
- Camus's capital fiction and literary responsibility
- Ad nauseam: Camus's narrative roads to abolitionism
- Poetic accountability: critical language and its limits
- Conclusion.
