Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy : 1678-1865 /: 1678-1865. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexandra Ganser.
• Authors: Ganser, Alexandra
• Contents: 1. Introduction: The Pirate as a Figure of Crisis and Legitimacy 2. Pirate Narratives and the Colonial Atlantic 2.1. The Buccaneer–Pirates: Articulations of Cultural Contact and Crisis, 1678–1699 The Caribbean Scenario in the Late Seventeenth Century The Buccaneer in Literature: Points and Counterpoints The Caribbean Buccaneer–Pirate as an Embodiment of Crisis A. O. Exquemelin's Zee–Roovers/Buccaneers of America Attempts at Consolidation: Pirate–Scientists' Texts The Creole Pirate 2.2. Puritans and Pirates: The New England Anti–Piracy Sermon, 1700–1730 Piracy in New England Cotton Mather's Anti–Piracy Sermons 'to Direct the Course of Sea–men' (Re–)Anglicization, Puritan Exceptionalism, Conversion Economies of Salvation 'The Complicated Plot of Piracy': Hybridization, Resistance, Counterpoints The Gallows Literature of Piracy: 'Let not the Lust of the Eye poison & pervert you!' 3. Pirate Narratives and the Revolutionary Atlantic in the Early Republic and the Antebellum Period 3.1. Pirate Narratives and the Romance of the Revolution 3.2. Crises of Authority and National Identity in James Fenimore Cooper's Red Rover (1827) Cooper's Maritime Nationalism The Invention of Tradition: The Red Rover as Realist Romance Legal Ambivalence and Independence Crises of Authority and the Absent Presence of Slavery 3.3. Cross–Dressing and Piracy in Lt. Murray's Fanny Campbell (1844) 'Values and Virtues in Crisis' Popular Novelettes and Piratical Adventure Fanny: A Tale of the Revolution? Female Pirates and Cross–Dressing Women Warriors 'Crises Elsewhere': Class, Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Race Fanny, the Patriot 4. Cultural Constructions of Piracy during the Crisis over Slavery 4.1. Entanglements: Piracy and Slavery From Exploration to Exploitation Barbary Pirate Narratives and U.S. Slavery 4.2. Slavery and Piracy in the First Anglo–Caribbean Novel: M.M. Philip's Emmanuel Appadocca (1854) The Ship and Black Atlantic Literature The First Anglo–Caribbean Novel Slavery, Piracy, Legitimacy 'A Literature of Revenge' 4.3. Piracy and Crises of Perception and Narration in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' (1855/56) Text and Contexts The Gray Atlantic: Narrating Epistemological Crisis Suspicion, Repression, and the Kaleidoscope of Piracy From the Black Atlantic to the Bleak Atlantic 4.4. The Figure of the Pirate at the Onset of the Civil War The (Il)Legitimacy of Secession The 'Piracy' Cases of 1860/61 Piracy on Union Envelopes The Iconography of Slavery and Piracy 5. Coda.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (289 pages)
• Subjects: Literature; Comparative literature; Literary Criticism -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; America--Literatures; Literature--History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030436230
• Related ISBNs: 9783030436223
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