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

by Ève Morisi

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"