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Revenge versus legality wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
Title:
Revenge versus legality wild justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib
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Maynard, Katherine Kearney, 1953-
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Publication Information:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
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xiii, 214 p. : ill.
Contents:
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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