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* This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Grant Number AH/1003088/1).

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Notes

* This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (Grant Number AH/1003088/1).

1 Sigmund Freud, ‘Thoughts for the Times on War and Death’ (1915) and ‘Why War’ (1933), both in Civilisation, Society and Religion: Group Psychology, Civilisation and Its Discontents and Other Works, ed. Albert Dickson, trans. under the general editorship of James Strachey, The Penguin Freud Library 12 (London: Penguin Books, 1991), 57–89 (pp. 86, 88) and 341–62 (p. 360) respectively.

2 Sigmund Freud, ‘Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego’ (1922), in Civilisation, Society and Religion, ed. Dickson, 91–178.

3 See Juan Francisco Fuentes, ‘Pueblo’, in Diccionario político y social del siglo XIX español, dir. Javier Fernández Sebastián & Juan Francisco Fuentes, 2 vols (Madrid: Alianza, 2002), I, 586–93.

4 Kathy Bacon, Negotiating Sainthood: Distinction, ‘Cursilería’ and Saintliness in Spanish Novels (London: Legenda, 2007), 13.

5 See Edward M. Wilson & Kathleen Kish, ‘Some Spanish Dick Turpins, Or Bad Men in Bad Ballads’, Hispanic Review, 52:2 (1984), 141–62.

6 See Alison Sinclair, ‘The Ambiguities of Retribution’, in this volume.

7 See Beatriz Cáceres Méndez & Robert Patch, ‘ “Gente de mal vivir”: Families and Incorrigible Sons in New Spain, 1721–1729’, Revista de Indias, 46:237 (2006), 363–92; and the article by Samuel Llano, ‘Public Enemy or National Hero? The Spanish Gypsy and the Rise of Flamenquismo, 1898–1922’, in this volume.

8 See Alison Sinclair, ‘Thinking in Pictures: Wrongdoers and Their Re-formulation’, in Spanish Prose Fiction from Cervantes to Baroja and Beyond: Essays in Honour of C. Alex Longhurst, ed. James Whiston & Julia Biggane, BSS, LXXXVIII:7–8 (2011), 109–19 (p. 109).

9 Eric J. Hobsbawm, Bandits (London: Pelican Books, 1985 [1^st ed. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1969]); Anton Blok, ‘The Peasant and the Brigand: Social Banditry Reconsidered’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 14:4 (1972), 494–503.

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