The Outlaw and The Popular /Folk Hero: A Review Article

Authors

  • J. S. Ryan University of New England

Keywords:

Folkloristics, Graham Seal,

Abstract

This is a generous and powerful treatment of the authority defiant figure across many cultures and centuries. While Graham Seal’s major work to date has been largely concerned with medieval England and colonial Australia, this is a fine and world-ranging survey, and a study presented with a compassionate identification and with a pleasing wit. It is, quite simply, Australia’s finest national and comparative volume in the global scholarship of the folkloric discipline.

Author Biography

J. S. Ryan, University of New England

English Discipline, Communication, Media and Writing, School of Arts, University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, 2351

References

Seal, Graham, Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History (Anthem Press: London, New York, Delhi, 2011). Pp. viii, 232. ISBN-13:978 0 85728 792 2 (Hbk); ISNBN-10:0 85728 792 3 (HBk).

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Published

2011-11-05

Issue

Vol. 26 (2011): Notions of Defiance; the Tragedy of Wars of Retaliation, and our Celtic Heritage

Section

Reviews and Reports

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