Claire Jowitt

The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 (eBook, ePUB)

English Literature and Seaborne Crime

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. The first book-length treatment of the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, this study underlines how despite its transgressive nature, piracy can be seen as a key mechanism which served to connect peoples and regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351891851
• Artikelnr.: 49366175

Autorenporträt

Claire Jowitt is now Professor of Renaissance English Literature at the University of Southampton. Her previous books include Voyage Drama and Gender Politics 1589-1642, Pirates? The Politics of Plunder 1550-1650 (ed.), and The Arts of Seventeenth-Century Science (co-ed.).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Subversive pirates? Representations of Purser and Clinton 1538-1639
The uses and abuses of 'piracy': discourses of mercantilism and empire in accounts of Drake's 'famous voyage' 1580-1630
'Et in arcadia ego': piracy and politics in prose romance 1580-1603
Pirates and politics: drama of the 'long 1590s'
Jacobean connections: piracy and politics in 17th-century drama and romance
Politics and pirate typology in John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's late Jacobean pirate drama
Bibliography
Index.