Conor Mccarthy

Outlaws and Spies (eBook, ePUB)

Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474455961
• Artikelnr.: 72420138

Autorenporträt

Conor McCarthy is Director of Philanthropy at the National Library of Australia. He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. His previous books are Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook, Marriage in Medieval England: Law, Literature and Practice, and Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Outside the Law in the Middle Ages
2. Sovereign Outlaws: Shakespeare's Second Tetralogy
3. The Endurance of Exclusion: Versions of Ned Kelly
4. 'We're not policemen': Espionage and Law in John le Carré
5. 'All plots tend to move deathward': Plots and Consequences in Don
DeLillo
6. Unanswered Questions: Ciaran Carson
7. Contesting the Virtual: William Gibson
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index