Revenge versus legality : wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Birkbeck Law Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.