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Outlaws and Spies : Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature /

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 po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McCarthy, Conor (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Colección:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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