{"product_id":"the-death-penalty-in-dickens-jeremy-tambling-9781350354579","title":"The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida: The Last Sentence of the Law","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTambling examines crime and punishment in Dickens's novels \u003ci\u003eBarnaby Rudge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Tale of Two Cities\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBleak House\u003c\/i\u003eand 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Tambling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350354570\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350354579\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d","brand":"Jeremy Tambling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46602820780287,"sku":"9781350354579","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5858d869-d95e-4739-ac4c-7b8e9d21bdee.jpg?v=1739695389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-death-penalty-in-dickens-jeremy-tambling-9781350354579","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}