Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630

Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630

English Literature and Seaborne Crime

Jowitt, Claire

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2016

242

Mole

Inglês

9781138269408

15 a 20 dias

Descrição não disponível.
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.