Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy

Alexandra Ganser

earliest edition we have, 2020 Springer International Publishing AG, 2020

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 understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to th...

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Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy edition · 2020 · Springer International Publishing AG · 9783030436254
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy edition · 2020 · Springer Nature · 289 pages · 9783030436230
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy hardcover · 2020 · Palgrave Macmillan · 242 pages · 9783030436223

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