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A fascinating exposition of piracy on deck and piracy on stage where art imitates life and life imitates art in the performative lives of famous male and female pirates and actors from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, with a few glimpses into the present world of Disney movies and swashbuckling computer games. A widely-research, influential study immersed in cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts brings new light to the piratical works of Byron, Scott, and James Fenimore Cooper, as well as to novel themes of piracy and slavery, sexualities, rogue egalitarianism, and wildish justice. A good read! - Richard Matlak, English Department, College of the Holy Cross, USA

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Frederick Burwick is a Research Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and is author and editor of thirty books and over one hundred and forty articles. He is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and general editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature. His recent books include Romantic Drama: Acting and Reacting and Playing to the Crowd, London Popular Theatre, 1780-1830. Manushag N. Powell is Associate Professor of English and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University, USA, where she teaches classes on British literature and culture, transatlantic literature, the long eighteenth century, the novel, British drama, piracy, and the Gothic. She is the author of Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals, and her essays have appeared in ECS, EC:TI, JEMCS, Literature Compass, SEL, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, JEMCS, and the Blackwell Companion to British Literature.

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