Revenge versus legality [electronic resource] : wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib / Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, and James Guimond.
Material type: TextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Description: xiii, 214 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 809.3/93556 22
- K5001 .M39 2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-208) and index.
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 / Harbottle -- Law and the romantic ego : conspiracy and justice in Honoré de Balzac's Le Père 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.
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