Revenge versus legality : wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib / Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney and James Guimond.
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Title
Revenge versus legality : wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib / Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney and James Guimond.
Published
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Birkbeck Law Press, 2010.
Call Number
K5001 .M39 2010
ISBN
9780415560160 (hbk.)
0415560160 (hbk.)
9780203854372 (ebook)
0203854373 (ebook)
0415560160 (hbk.)
9780203854372 (ebook)
0203854373 (ebook)
Description
xiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)457164662
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [200]-208) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
x
1.
Introduction
1
Revenge, retribution, payback
2
Special crimes and wild justice
4
Special crimes: locked rooms and magic bullets
5
Special crimes: crimes against kin
5
Special crimes: crimes against symbolic places and persons
6
Special crimes: the police as criminals
7
Legality and carnival
8
Legality and carnival: their antecedents
9
Legality and carnival: order and disorder
11
Legality and carnival fusions: three cases---Sean Devine vs. Jimmy Marcus; Bob Ewell vs. Atticus Finch; The King of Spain vs. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte
15
History, revenge, and national security
21
2.
Revenge and the detective tradition: when dogs don't bark and detectives don't tell
28
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "Charles Augustus Milverton"
30
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
33
Susan Glaspell's "A Jury of Her Peers"
38
3.
Some like it wild: supernatural revenge in Sheridan Le Fanu's "Mr. Justice Harbottle"
47
4.
Law and the romantic ego: conspiracy and justice in Honore de Balzac's Le Pere Goriot
61
5.
Justice, race, and revenge in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson
81
6.
The empire strikes back: imperialism and justice in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India
98
7.
Race, sex, fear, revenge in Richard Wright's Native Son
117
8.
State terrorism and revenge in Andre Brink's A Dry White Season
133
9.
Rogue cops and beltway vigilantes
154
Torture, redemptive violence, and "American ideals"
154
Justice goes to the movies
162
Dirty Harry, Death Wish, and the politics of torture
174
Notes
193
Bibliography
200
Index
209