Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida

Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction: 'Growing Up to be Hanged'

PART ONE: Dickens - And The Eighteenth Century
CHAPTER I - Abolition and Dickens
CHAPTER 2- Fielding, Hogarth, and Dickens
CHAPTER 3 - Barnaby Rudge: Poe, and Caleb Williams

PART 2 - Derrida - The French Revolution Onwards
CHAPTER 4 - Deconstruction and Justice
CHAPTER 5 - The Death Penalty Seminars
CHAPTER 6 - Decapitation in A Tale of Two Cities
CHAPTER 7 - On the USA: Violence and Terrorism

In Conclusion

Index

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• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Ética e filosofia moral
• Filosofia
• História das idéias

abolitionist; abolitionism; crime; criminality; punishment; prison; crimonology; Nietzsche; Freud; Benjamin; Foucault; literature and law; capital punishment; ethics; William Hogarth; William Godwin; Henry Fielding; Edgar Allan Poe; execution; Simone de Beauvoir; Hannah Arendt; terrorism; deconstruction