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Piracy Mythmaking in the Eighteenth Century Criminality, Human Nature, and Civil Government
By Richard Frohock
Copyright 2026
194 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Piracy Mythmaking in the Eighteenth Century: Criminality, Human Nature, and Civil Government focuses on the figure of the pirate as a literary phenomenon in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Taking a cultural studies approach, it complements historical studies of piracy by examining the pirate as a powerful and important literary and cultural trope. Piracy Mythmaking offers... Read more
1. From Hawkins to Jenkins: Interpreting Violence in English Piracy Narratives 2. Piracy and Civil Government 3. Captive Women Among Pirates 4. Piracy and Alliances with Non-Europeans 5. The Literary Evolution of the Notorious Pirate Henry Avery
Biography
Richard Frohock is a Professor of Literature and the Associate Dean of the Honors College at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. He specializes in early American literature and culture, particularly British colonization of the Caribbean in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
