Revenge versus legality
Subtitle: wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
By: Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney, and James Guimond.
Contributors: Kearney, Jarod.; Guimond, James.
Publisher: Routledge; Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [UK]; N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415560160
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of; Vigilantes; Rule of law; Terrorism -- Prevention; Revenge
Table of contents: title: Revenge and the detective tradition : when dogs don't bark, and detectives don't tell; title: Some like it wild : supernatural revenge in Sheridan Le Fanu's Mr. Justice / Harbottle; title: Law and the romantic ego : conspiracy and justice in Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot; title: Justice, race, and revenge in Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson; title: The empire strikes back : imperialism and justice in E.M. Forster's A passage to India; title: Race, sex, fear, revenge in Richard Wright's Native son; title: State terrorism and revenge in Andre Brink's A dry white season; title: Rogue cops and beltway vigilantes.