Pirates, Traitors, and Apostates : : Renegade Identities in Early Modern English Writing / / Laurie Ellinghausen.
Examining tales of notorious figures in Renaissance England, including the mercenary Thomas Stukeley, the Barbary corsair John Ward, and the wandering adventurers the Sherley brothers, Laurie Ellinghausen sheds new light on the construction of the early modern renegade and its depiction in English p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Running Down the "Runagate"
- 1. "Unquiet Hotspurs": Stukeley, Vernon, and the Renegade Humour
- 2. "We Are of the Sea!": Masterless Identity and Transnational Context in A Christian Turned Turk
- 3. "Lend Us Your Lament": Purser and Clinton on the Scaffold
- 4. "Extravagant Thoughts": The Sherley Brothers and the Future of Renegade England
- Coda: "Skillful in Their Art": Criminal Biography and the Renegade Inheritance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index