Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy : 1678-1865 / / by Alexandra Ganser.

• Superior document: Maritime Literature and Culture,
• VerfasserIn: Ganser, Alexandra.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
• Language: English
• Series: Maritime Literature and Culture,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 289 p. 14 illus., 12 illus. in color.)

This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and und...

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction: The Pirate as a Figure of Crisis and Legitimacy
• 2. Pirate Narratives and the Colonial Atlantic
• 3. Pirate Narratives and the Revolutionary Atlantic in the Early Republic and the Antebellum Period
• 4. Cultural Constructions of Piracy during the Crisis over Slavery
• 5. Coda.