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The culture of piracy, 1580-1630 : English literature and seaborne crime /

By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. The first book-length treatment of the cu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jowitt, Claire
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Colección:Transculturalisms, 1400-1700.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Subversive pirates representations of Purser and Clinton, 1583-1639
  • Uses and abuses of piracy: discourses of mercantilism and empire in accounts of Drake's famous voyage, 1580-1630
  • Et in Arcadia ego : piracy and politics in prose romance, 1580-1603
  • Pirates and politics: drama of the long, 1590s
  • Jacobean connections: piracy and politics in seventeenth-century drama and romance
  • Politics and pirate typology in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's late Jacobean pirate drama.