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Author:   Grace Moore
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138251878

ISBN 10:   1138251879
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   28 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Grace Moore; Pirate chic: tracing the aesthetics of literary piracy, Mel Campbell; The pirate poet in the 19th century: Trollope and Byron, Deborah Lutz; Playing pirate; real and imaginary angrias in Branwell Brontë's writing, Joetta Harty; Ho! For China: piratical incursions, free trade imperialism and modern Chinese history, c.1832-1834, Ting Man Tsao; The wreck of the Corsair: piracy, political economy and American publishing, Andrew Lyndon Knighton; Female pirates and nationalism in 19th-century American popular fiction, Katherine Anderson; Mutiny on the Orion: the legacy of the Hermione mutiny and the politics of nonviolent protest in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, Deborah Denenholz Morse; Acts of piracy: Black Ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage, Kate Mattacks; The perils of empire: Dickens, Collins and the Indian Mutiny, Garrett Ziegler; Pirates for boys: masculinity and degeneracy in R.M. Ballantyne's adventure novels, Grace Moore; Piracy, race and domestic peril in Hard Cash, Sean Grass; The Pirates of Penzance: the slaves of duty in an age of piracy, Abigail Burnham Bloom; 'Dooty is dooty': pirates and sea-lawyers in Treasure Island, Alex Thomson; Staging the pirate: the ambiguities of representation and the significance of convention, Victor Emeljanow; Bram Stoker's The Mystery of the Sea: law lawlessness, piracy and protectionism, Carol A. Senf; Piracy and the ends of romantic commercialism: Victorian businessmen meet Malay pirates, Tamara Wagner; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews

Teeming with fresh perspectives and original insights, this is a treasure chest of essays on literature's pirates'. John Peck, author of Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917 '... this is a rewarding volume of essays on subjects both remote and familiar. Piracy is the common thread, but the prominence of themes of imperialism, copyright and print history, spectacle and popular culture, and gender and sexuality, make of the book a veritable treasure trove for the reader interested in a broad canvas of (mostly transatlantic) nineteenth-century cultural history. - Review 19 The sophistication of Thompson's analysis does justice to a writer whose 'individualism has proven hard for recent critics to stomach' (215), and exemplifies the capacity of meticulous close reading to breathe new critical life into the nineteenth century's not-so-childish-after-all pirates. - Review of English Studies ... fills a major gap in the scholarly literature on piracy and offers an admirable complement to, inter alia, Claire Jowitt's The Culture of Piracy... - Victorian Studies Reminding us of the indebtedness of our conceptions of the pirate to the likes of Byron and Stevenson, this collection will no doubt have something to offer anyone interested in nineteenth-century renderings of the pirate, his villainy, and, perhaps especially, his subversive heroism. - Sara Malton, Saint Mary's University

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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)

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