Cruel Delight

Cruel Delight
Author: James A. Steintrager
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253343673

Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom

Cruel Delight

Cruel Delight
Author: James A Steintrager
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2004-01-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253216494

Cruel Investigation investigates the fascination with joyful malice in 18th-century Europe and how this obsession helped inform the very meaning of humanity. James A. Steintrager reveals how the understanding of cruelty moved from an inexplicable, apparently paradoxical "inhuman" pleasure in the misfortune of others to an eminently human trait stemming from will and freedom

Sovereignty and superheroes

Sovereignty and superheroes
Author: Neal Curtis
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784996386

Marks a major new contribution to the emerging field of comic studies and the growing literature on superheroes. Using a range of critical theorists the book examines superheroes as sovereigns, addressing amongst other things the complex treatment of law and violence, legitimacy and authority.

Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures

Cruel Children in Popular Texts and Cultures
Author: Monica Flegel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319722751

This book explores how alarmist social discourses about 'cruel' young people fail to recognize the complexity of cruelty and the role it plays in child agency. Examining representations of cruel young people in popular texts and popular culture, the collected essays demonstrate how gender, race, and class influence who gets labeled 'cruel' and which actions are viewed as negative, aggressive, and disruptive. It shows how representations of cruel young people negotiate the violence that shadows polite society, and how narratives of cruelty and aggression are used to affirm, or to deny, young people’s agency.

The Cruel Prince

The Cruel Prince
Author: Holly Black
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018-01-02
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 031631028X

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black, comes the first book in a stunning new series about a mortal girl who finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. Of course I want to be like them. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him--and face the consequences. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.

Vicious Deception

Vicious Deception
Author: Elira Firethorn
Publisher: Elira Firethorn
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2023-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She'll do anything to bring them home. It wasn’t supposed to end like this. The guys’ enemy wasn’t supposed to gain the upper hand. But now Elliot, Rhett, and Oliver have been captured and separated by Ludo Holloway. If they make one wrong move, the consequences will be disastrous. The only thing they can do is comply with Holloway’s wishes and do their best to secretly find a way to escape. Wren barely managed to get away from Ludo’s men, and now she’s desperate to bring the guys back home. The problem is, she’s quickly realizing that she’s massively underprepared to save them. Even with the help of the guys’ allies, there’s no guarantee anything they’ll do will work. But things aren’t always as they seem. Sometimes, allies are found in the most unexpected of places—as long as it’s not yet another trap. The stakes have never been this high, and the guys and Wren eventually all reach the same conclusion. Either risk everything, or face the inevitable: death. Vicious Deception is the sixth and final book in the Ruthless Desires Series. It's a dark MMMF polyamorous/why choose romance book that contains high heat and dark themes. Please check the Before You Read section at the beginning of the book for more information.