Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century : swashbucklers and swindlers / edited by Grace Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Grace, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Pirates in literature.

Pirates--History--19th century.

Pirates.

Piracy--History--19th century.

Piracy.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

Summary:

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.... 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.--From publisher description.

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 nineteenth-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 and lawlessness, piracy and protectionism / Carol A. Senf

Piracy and the ends of romantic commercialism: Victorian businessmen meet Malay pirates / Tamara Wagner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-290) and index.

ISBN:

9780754664338

0754664333

OCLC:

674933511