Revenge versus Legality: Wild Justice from Balzac to Clint Eastwood and Abu Ghraib

by James Guimond, Katherine Maynard, Jarod Kearney

Book Overview

In the wake of Guantanamo Bay, extraordinary renditions, and secret torture centres in Eastern Europe and elsewhere, Revenge versus Legality addresses the relationship between law and wild or vigilante justice; between the power to enforce retribution and the desire to seek revenge. Taking up a variety of narratives from the eras of Romanticism, Realism, Modernism and the Contemporary period, and including new theories to explain the interactions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415697727
• ISBN13: 9780415697729
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"