Critical Insights: Conspiracies

Conspiracies—and the secrecy, plotting and unlawfulness that accompany them—have played a prominent role in human interaction and are featured in literature from the Bible to Shakespeare to Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code. This volume explores touchstone moments in conspiracy fiction and delves into the socio-political aspects of conspiracies while examining them at the heart of some of the most beloved canonical literature in the English language.