{"product_id":"crisis-and-legitimacy-in-atlantic-american-narratives-of-piracy-1678-1865-9783030436254","title":"Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexandra Ganser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Open Access book, \u003ci\u003e Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865\u003c\/i\u003e, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin's 1678 \u003ci\u003eBuccaneers of America\u003c\/i\u003e and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts--from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper's \u003ci\u003eThe Red Rover\u003c\/i\u003e, and Herman Melville's \"Benito Cereno\" to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette \u003ci\u003eFanny Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276926738583,"sku":"9783030436254","price":2938.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783030436254.webp?v=1769287032","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/crisis-and-legitimacy-in-atlantic-american-narratives-of-piracy-1678-1865-9783030436254","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}