Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law Liter Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature (Paperback)

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 Carré Don DeLillo Ciaran Carson and William Gibson.