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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 820.93556
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Pirates in literature; Pirates - History - 19th century; Piracy - History - 19th century
• Altri autori: MooreGrace <1974->
• Note generali: "First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Pirate chic : tracing the aesthetics of literary piracy / Mel Campbell -- 2. The pirate poet in the nineteenth century : Trollope and Byron / Deborah Lutz -- 3. Playing pirate : real and imaginary Angrias in Branwell Bronte's writing / Joetta Harty -- 4. Ho! For China : piratical incursions, free trade imperialism and modern Chinese history, c. 1832-1834 / Ting Man Tsao -- 5. The wreck of the Corsair : piracy, political economy and American publishing / Andrew Lyndon Knighton -- 6. Female pirates and nationalism in nineteenth-century American popular fiction / Katherine Anderson -- 7. 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 -- 8. Acts of piracy : Black Ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage / Kate Mattacks -- 9. The perils of empire : Dickens, Collins and the Indian mutiny / Garrett Ziegler -- 10. Pirates for boys : masculinity and degeneracy in R.M. Ballantyne's adventure novels / Grace Moore -- 11. Piracy, race and domestic peril in Hard cash / Sean Grass -- 12. The pirates of Penzance : the slaves of duty in an age of piracy / Abigail Burnham Bloom -- 13. 'Dooty is dooty' : pirates and sea-lawyers in Treasure Island / Alex Thomson -- 14. Staging the pirate : the ambiguities of representation and the significance of convention / Victor Emeljanow -- 15. Bram Stoker's The mystery of the sea : law and lawlessness, piracy and protectionism / Carol A. Senf -- 16. Piracy and the ends of romantic commercialism : Victorian businessmen meet Malay pirates / Tamara S. Wagner.
• Titolo autorizzato: Pirates and mutineers of the nineteenth century
• ISBN: 1-351-91105-8; 1-138-25187-9; 1-315-24677-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154588203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II