Dedication
Foreword
List of illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Memory, identity, and violence: founding in the Aeneid and the Outlaw Josey Wales
Chapter 2. Imagining purity: the corrosive stranger and the construction of a genealogy
Chapter 3. The wild stranger and the conquest of space
Chapter 4. Playing culture: combat spectacles and the acting body
Chapter 5. The experience of politics and the crises of two republics
Select bibliography
Index.