Revenge versus legality : wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib /

Main Author: Maynard, Katherine Kearney, 1953-
Other Authors: Kearney, Jarod, Guimond, James
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Birkbeck Law Press, 2010.
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245 1 0 |a Revenge versus legality :  |b wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib /  |c Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney and James Guimond. 
260 |a Abingdon, Oxon ;  |b Birkbeck Law Press,  |c 2010.  |a New York : 
300 |a xiii, 214 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliography (p. [200]-208) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Revenge and the detective tradition : when dogs don’t bark, and detectives don’t tell -- Some like it wild : supernatural revenge in Sheridan Le Fanu’s Mr. Justice -- Law and the romantic ego : conspiracy and justice in Honore? de Balzac’s Le Pe?re Goriot -- Justice, race, and revenge in Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson -- The empire strikes back : imperialism and justice in E.M. Forster’s A passage to India -- Race, sex, fear, revenge in Richard Wright’s Native son -- State terrorism and revenge in Andre Brink’s A dry white season -- Rogue cops and beltway vigilantes. 
650 0 |a Criminal justice, Administration of 
650 0 |a Vigilantes 
650 0 |a Rule of law 
650 0 |a Terrorism  |x Prevention 
700 1 |a Kearney, Jarod 
700 1 |a Guimond, James 
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