Print version: Janes, Regina. Losing our heads : beheadings in literature and culture. New York : New York University Press, [2005] xv, 255 pages ; 24 cm ISBN 9780814742693
Includes bibliographical references and index
Prologue : Head matters -- Introduction to a beheading -- Bouncing heads and scaffold dramas -- Power to the people : his pike and her guillotine -- At the sign of the Baptist’s head -- African heads and imperial decolletage : beheadings in the colonies -- Epilogue : Craniate origins and headless futures.