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Cover
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Growing Up to Be Hanged
Lamb
The pale criminals and the great criminals
The first part: Dickens
The second part: Derrida
Part One Dickens
and the Eighteenth Century
1 Abolitionism and Dickens
Dickens's letters
The Mannings
2 Fielding, Hogarth and Dickens
'Four Stages of Cruelty'
Fielding and murder
3 Barnaby Rudge, Poe and Caleb Williams
Poe, Godwin and Caleb Williams: 'An epoch in the mind'
'The Man of the Crowd' and the criminality of great cities
Dickens, Poe and secrecy
Part Two Derrida
The French Revolution Onwards
4 Deconstruction and Justice
'Force of Law'
The Beast and the Sovereign
5 The Death Penalty Seminars
On fascination
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
On the guillotine: Hugo and Turgenev
'The instant of my death'
Shakespeare and blood
The Death Penalty 2: Confession
Robespierre
6 Decapitation and A Tale of Two Cities
Secrecy
Violence and fascism
'I can devour thee'
7 On the USA: Violence and Terrorism
In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song
Timothy McVeigh
Terror and suicide
In Conclusion
'New cruelty'
Index
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Frequently Cited Texts and Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Growing Up to Be Hanged
Lamb
The pale criminals and the great criminals
The first part: Dickens
The second part: Derrida
Part One Dickens
and the Eighteenth Century
1 Abolitionism and Dickens
Dickens's letters
The Mannings
2 Fielding, Hogarth and Dickens
'Four Stages of Cruelty'
Fielding and murder
3 Barnaby Rudge, Poe and Caleb Williams
Poe, Godwin and Caleb Williams: 'An epoch in the mind'
'The Man of the Crowd' and the criminality of great cities
Dickens, Poe and secrecy
Part Two Derrida
The French Revolution Onwards
4 Deconstruction and Justice
'Force of Law'
The Beast and the Sovereign
5 The Death Penalty Seminars
On fascination
Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt
On the guillotine: Hugo and Turgenev
'The instant of my death'
Shakespeare and blood
The Death Penalty 2: Confession
Robespierre
6 Decapitation and A Tale of Two Cities
Secrecy
Violence and fascism
'I can devour thee'
7 On the USA: Violence and Terrorism
In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song
Timothy McVeigh
Terror and suicide
In Conclusion
'New cruelty'
Index