The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law

by Jeremy Tambling

In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran two years of seminars on the subject, which were published posthumously. What the novelist and the philosopher of deconstruction discussed independently, this book brings into comparison.

Tambling examines crime and punishment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350354554
• ISBN13: 9781350354555
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"