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Ganser, Alexandra.

Crisis and legitimacy in Atlantic American narratives of piracy1678-1865 /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Crisis and legitimacy in Atlantic American narratives of piracyby Alexandra Ganser.
Reminder of title:	1678-1865 /
Author:	Ganser, Alexandra.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020.
Description:	xvi, 289 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	American literatureHistory and criticism.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43623-0
ISBN:	9783030436230$q(electronic bk.)

Crisis and legitimacy in Atlantic American narratives of piracy1678-1865 /
Ganser, Alexandra.

Crisis and legitimacy in Atlantic American narratives of piracy1678-1865 /[electronic resource] :by Alexandra Ganser. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2020. - xvi, 289 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Maritime literature and culture. - Maritime literature and culture..

1. Introduction: The Pirate as a Figure of Crisis and Legitimacy -- 2. Pirate Narratives and the Colonial Atlantic -- 3. Pirate Narratives and the Revolutionary Atlantic in the Early Republic and the Antebellum Period -- 4. Cultural Constructions of Piracy during the Crisis over Slavery -- 5. Coda.

Open access.

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 the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.

ISBN: 9783030436230$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-43623-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

174179
American literature
--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PS173.P57 / G367 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9358

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