The Outlaw Legend¶
Seal, G. (1996). The Outlaw Legend: A Cultural Tradition in Britain, America and Australia. Cambridge University Press.
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Domain-specific¶
- Outlaw Hero (Stock Character)
- The recurring abstraction supported by folklore and cultural-history scholarship is the outlaw hero or outlaw legend: a mediated figure whose story converts lawbreaking into a morally ambivalent or positive challenge to power
This sourceEstablishes the outlaw hero as a single cross-national cultural tradition — Seal traces one recurring legend through British highwaymen, American badmen and Australian bushrangers, carried by ballad, chapbook, newspaper, pulp fiction, film and television rather than by unrelated criminal biographies.
- The recurring abstraction supported by folklore and cultural-history scholarship is the outlaw hero or outlaw legend: a mediated figure whose story converts lawbreaking into a morally ambivalent or positive challenge to power
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