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OverviewThree hundred years of novels, plays, paintings and films have etched into the popular imagination contradictory images of the pirate as both arch-criminal and anti-hero. How did the pirate - a real threat to mercantilism and trade in early-modern Britain - become the hypermasculine anti-hero familiar through popular culture? And how did the pirate's world, marked as it was by sexual and economic transgression, come to capture the collective imagination? This study examines the homoerotic and other culturally-transgressive aspects of the pirate's world, and the prurient fascination it has attracted. The author uses historical documents, trial records and the confessions of pirates, as well as literary works such as ""Robinson Crusoe"", to trace the birth and development of the pirate image and to consider its implications for changing notions of self, masculinity and sexuality in the modern era. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hans TurleyPublisher: New York University Press Imprint: New York University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.318kg ISBN: 9780814782248ISBN 10: 0814782248 Pages: 184 Publication Date: 01 June 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsTurley presents a thoroughly-researched literary and cultural history of the transgressive pirate figure in the early eighteenth-century. Journal of Folklore Research <p> Turley presents a thoroughly-researched literay and cultural history of the transgressive pirate figure in the early eighteenth-century. Turley presents a thoroughly-researched literay and cultural history of the transgressive pirate figure in the early eighteenth-century. -Journal of Folklore Research A splendid account of piracy as a historical and cultural production of emerging modern culture. Hans Turley shows the ways in which sodomy and piracy are inextricable from the cultural imagination of the eighteenth century and, in doing so, encourages us to rethink not only pirate history, but the history of sexuality as well. -George E. Haggerty,University of California, Riverside No simplifying on my part will do justice to Turley's exhaustive readings and display of complex ideas. -Left History 8.1 Turley presents a thoroughly-researched literay and cultural history of the transgressive pirate figure in the early eighteenth-century. -Journal of Folklore Research No simplifying on my part will do justice to Turley's exhaustive readings and display of complex ideas. -Left History 8.1 A splendid account of piracy as a historical and cultural production of emerging modern culture. Hans Turley shows the ways in which sodomy and piracy are inextricable from the cultural imagination of the eighteenth century and, in doing so, encourages us to rethink not only pirate history, but the history of sexuality as well. -George E. Haggerty,University of California, Riverside Author InformationHans Turley was Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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