Table of Contents
Introduction: Reading Violence
Naked Terror: Political Violence, Libertine Violence
Terror in Lyon
Literature of Violence or Literature on Violence? The French Enlightenment on Trial
Hot Terror: Quatrevingt-Treize
Talking Heads: Violence and Desire in Dumas père’s (Post-)Terrorist Society
Reading Corpses: Interpretive Violence
Mirbeau’s Ultraviolence
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent by Robert F. Barsky
French Literary Fascism by David Carroll
The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter by Mary Ann Caws
Kant after Duchamp by Thierry De Duve
Literary Theory: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Phantasmatic Indochina. French Colonial Ideology in Architecture, Film, and Literature by Panivong Norindr