Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture
About the Book Series
Outlaws in Literature, History, and Culture examines the nature, function, and context of the outlaw and the outlawed — people, spaces, practices — in the pre-modern world, and in its modern representations. By its nature, outlawry reflects not only the outlawed, but the forces of law which seek to define and to contain it. Throughout the centuries, a wide and ever-changing, and yet ever familiar, variety of outlaw characters and narratives has captured the imagination of audiences both particular and general, local and global. This series seeks to reflect the transcultural, transgendered and interdisciplinary manifestations, and the different literary, political, socio-historical, and media contexts in which the outlaw/ed may be encountered from the medieval period to the modern.
Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in American Popular Media: Who Was That Masked Woman?
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory Bray, Andrew J. Ball
August 13, 2025
This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines how women vigilantes, social bandits, outlaws, and anti-heroines were represented in American novels, movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, and pulp fiction, from the post-Civil War era through World War II. Demonstrating a broad spectrum ...
Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales
1st Edition
Edited
By Melissa Ridley Elmes, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
January 09, 2023
In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along...
Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces: Media, Performance, and Other New Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Coote, Valerie Johnson
June 30, 2021
Following in the tradition of recent work by cultural geographers and historians of maps, this collection examines the apparently familiar figure of Robin Hood as he can be located within spaces that are geographical, cultural, and temporal. The volume is divided into two sections: the first ...
Food and Feast in Modern Outlaw Tales
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander L. Kaufman, Penny Vlagopoulos
September 30, 2020
This collection of scholarly essays presents new work from an emerging line of inquiry: modern outlaw narratives and the textual and cultural relevance of food and feasting. Food, its preparation and its consumption, is presented in outlaw narratives as central points of human interaction, ...
The King and Commoner Tradition: Carnivalesque Politics in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
1st Edition
By Mark Truesdale
August 14, 2020
King and Commoner tales were hugely popular across the late medieval and early modern periods, their cultural influence extending from Robin Hood ballads to Shakespearean national histories. This study represents the first detailed exploration of this rich and fascinating literary tradition, ...
Capturing the Pícaro in Words: Literary and Institutional Representations of Marginal Communities in Early Modern Madrid
1st Edition
By Konstantin Mierau
June 30, 2020
Capturing the Pícaro in Words discusses the framing of the transient marginals of early modern Madrid in the literary pícaro. It compares the perceptions of constables, shopkeepers, and criminals, to those of mass-produced literary representations, and argues that the literary representations "...
Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon
1st Edition
Edited
By Lesley Coote, Alexander L. Kaufman
June 30, 2020
This cutting-edge volume demonstrates both the literary quality and the socio-economic importance of works on "the matter of the greenwood" over a long chronological period. These include drama texts, prose literature and novels (among them, children's literature), and poetry. Whilst some of these ...
Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and American Folk Outlaw Performance
1st Edition
By Damian A. Carpenter
December 12, 2019
With its appeal predicated upon what civilized society rejects, there has always been something hidden in plain sight when it comes to the outlaw figure as cultural myth. Damian A. Carpenter traverses the unsettled outlaw territory that is simultaneously a part of and apart from settled American ...
The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature: From Fen to Greenwood
1st Edition
By Sarah Harlan-Haughey
December 12, 2019
Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of ...