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

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 in Dickens''s novels , A Tale of Two Cities , Oliver Twist and Bleak House and explores those who influenced Dickens''s work, including Hogarth, Fielding, Godwin and Edgar Allen Poe. This book also looks at those who influenced Derrida - Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault and Blanchot - and considers Derrida''s study on terrorism and the USA as the only major democracy adhering to the death penalty.A comprehensive study of punishment in Dickens, and furthering Derrida''s insights by commenting on Shakespeare and blood, revenge, the French Revolution, and the enduring power of violence and its fascination, this book is a major contribution to literary criticism on Dickens and Derrida. Those interested in literature, criminology, law, gender, and psychoanalysis will find it an essential intervention in a topic still rousing intense argument.>

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Tambling
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781350354579
• ISBN: 978-1-350-35457-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Comparative Literature, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -