Outlaws and Spies

Outlaws and Spies PDF Author: McCarthy Conor McCarthy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474455964
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Book Description
By reading two bodies of literature not normally read together - the outlaw literature and espionage literature - Conor McCarthy shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state power. Texts discussed range from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare's history plays, and versions of the Ned Kelly story to contemporary writing by John le Carre, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.