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Autore |
Jowitt Claire |
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Titolo |
The culture of piracy, 1580-1630 : English literature and Seaborne crime / / Claire Jowitt |
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Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-24037-8 |
1-282-65759-3 |
9786612657597 |
0-7546-9912-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Collana |
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Transculturalisms, 1400-1700 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
Crime in literature |
Pirates in literature |
Politics and literature - England - History - 16th century |
Politics and literature - England - History - 17th century |
Privateering - History - 16th century |
Privateering - History - 17th century |
Commerce in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2010 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Subversive Pirates? Representations of Purser and Clinton, 1583-1639; 2 The Uses and Abuses of 'Piracy': Discourses of Mercantilism and Empire in Accounts of Drake's 'Famous Voyage', 1580-1630; 3 'Et in Arcadia Ego': Piracy and Politics in Prose Romance, 1580-1603; 4 Pirates and Politics: Drama of the 'Long 1590's'; 5 Jacobean Connections: Piracy and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Drama and Romance; 6 Politics and Pirate Typology in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's Late Jacobean Pirate Drama; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how |
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