Pirates and Mutineers of the Nineteenth Century
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Byronic Corsair
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Female Pirate
Flying Dutchman
francis
gender and piracy
Glass Town
Glass Town Confederacy
Imaginary Kingdom
imperialism studies
john
Lacy Acting Editions
Lillian Nayder
literary
literary criminality
Literary Pirate
literary pirates in British history
Long John Silver
Nautical Drama
nineteenth-century literature
Notorious Pyrates
Pirate Captain
Pirate Figure
Pirate King
Pirate Life
Piratical Subject
race and empire
red
Red Rover
silver
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Treasure Island
Victorian adventure fiction
Woman Pirate
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754664338
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 23 Mar 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first volume devoted to literary pirates in the nineteenth century, this collection examines changes in the representation of the pirate from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the late Victorian period. Gone were the dangerous ruffians of the eighteenth-century novel and in their place emerged a set of brooding and lovable rogues, as exemplified by Byron's Corsair. As the contributors engage with acts of piracy by men and women in the literary marketplace as well as on the high seas, they show that both forms were foundational in the promotion and execution of Britain's imperial ambitions. Linking the pirate's development as a literary figure with the history of piracy and the making of the modern state tells us much about race, class, and evolving gender relationships. While individual chapters examine key texts like Treasure Island, Dickens's 1857 'mutiny' story in Household Words, and Peter Pan, the collection as a whole interrogates the growth of pirate myths and folklore throughout the nineteenth century and the depiction of their nautical heirs in contemporary literature and culture.
Grace Moore teaches at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has published widely on Victorian literature and culture and is the author of Dickens and Empire (Ashgate, 2004)
