Capital Letters: Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the Death Penalty
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
: A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics : A - 26A - Modern Languages
- Output identifier
- 562
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0-8101-4151-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 265-page monograph concludes a three-book project on how modern Western writers have critiqued capital punishment (edition of Camus’s archives on the subject in 2011, comparative volume on European and North-American abolitionist literature in 2019). It is the first study to examine this issue over a longue durée (1829-1960) and across both poetry and prose in the French context. It considers three major post-Revolutionary authors (Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus) through an ambitious interdisciplinary framework that combines legal history, poetics, politics, and ethics. Reviewers have deemed the analysis “a stunning tour de force”, “broad in scope, nuanced in argument”, and “impeccably researched”.
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- Non-English
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