REVENGE VERSUS LEGALITY WILD JUSTICE FROM BALZAC TO CLINT EASTWOOD AND ABU GHRAIBPDF电子书下载

1&Introduction 1

Reuenge， 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 carniual 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， reuenge， 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 Miluerton” 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， redemptiue uiolence， and “American ideals” 154

Justice goes to the mouies 162

Dirty Harry， Death Wish， and the politics of torture 174

Notes 193

Bibliography 200

Index 209