Outlaws and Spies

Examines the role of literature in representing and critiquing the exclusion from law as an enduring tactic of state power Reads outlaw literature and espionage literature together Shows how these genres represent and critique the longstanding use of legal exclusion as a means of supporting state powerDiscusses texts ranging from the medieval Robin Hood ballads, Shakespeare’s history plays and versions of the Ned Kelly story to contemporary writing by John le Carré, Don DeLillo, Ciaran Carson an