Guillotine: Its Legend and Lore Book

	Introduction	3
1	Inventing the Guillotine	13
2	The Guillotine and the Death Penalty at the Time of the French Revolution	27
3	Guillotinomania	33
4	Talking Heads and Walking Trunks	53
5	The Rise and Fall of a Tradition	59
6	The Museum, Fairground, and the Collector's Guillotine	79
7	Victor Hugo, Hector Berlioz, and the Condemned Man	85
8	The Criminal-Artist of the Guillotine	95
9	The Satirical Guillotine	99
10	The Guillotinenromantik of Georg Buchner and Antoine Wiertz	105
11	Macabre Tales: Irving, Dumas, Janin, and Sue	115
12	Literary Eyewitnesses	129
13	Dostoevsky's Idiot	147
14	Novels of the French Revolution	153
15	The Guillotine Burned and the Guillotine Nostalgia of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam	163
16	Cabaret, Grand Guignol, and Broadway	177
17	Anarchists Confront the Guillotine	193
18	Fantomas and the Triumph of Evil	209
19	The Guillotine in the Silent Film	219
20	Aphorists, Poets, and Playwrights	229
21	The Nazi Guillotine	239
22	The Guillotine Sails for the New World	245
23	The Campaign Against the Death Penalty--Existentialists and Filmmakers	253
24	Guillotines in Unexpected Places	269
25	Recent Plays and Films about the French Revolution and the Historical Guillotine	287
26	The Guillotine Between Word and Image	301
	Afterword: Last Words, Final Gestures	311
	Bibliography	315
	Index	321
	List of Illustrations	327