Titlebook: Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy; 1678-1865 Alexandra Ganser Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37755-7n of independence, in which the crisis of colonial legitimacy was performatively resolved, the sign of piracy was externalized by the claim that the British monarch was a pirate and that the future U.S. thus had a natural right to independence. The chapter examines how historical romances in early A

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Mark Eisenegger,Lisa Schwaiger,Daniel Vogler of the nineteenth century and its de-legitimizing rhetoric of an ‘Oriental’ pirate Other. Captivity tales about abduction and enslavement by Muslim ‘pirates’ like Royall Tyler’s . (1824) re-directed piracy from North Africa to North America, questioning the legitimacy of slavery at home and thus he

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Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2020iterary 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, piratesasked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history..

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37755-7n geared towards an increasingly female readership, as in Lt. Murray’s . (1844/1845). Former revolutionary heroines (here in the form of a patriotic female pirate) were domesticated in such historical romance-novelettes to make palpable the ongoing transition to a more conservative feminine ideal.

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Mark Eisenegger,Lisa Schwaiger,Daniel Vogler crisis as fundamentally a crisis of knowing and telling, voicing ontological insecurity as masters and slaves become indistinguishable over suspicions of piracy. The same conjuncture is used in a different context in popular anti-Southern discourses during the Civil War, as decorated letter envelop

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Pirate Narratives and the Revolutionary Atlantic in the Early Republic and the Antebellum Period,n geared towards an increasingly female readership, as in Lt. Murray’s . (1844/1845). Former revolutionary heroines (here in the form of a patriotic female pirate) were domesticated in such historical romance-novelettes to make palpable the ongoing transition to a more conservative feminine ideal.

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Cultural Constructions of Piracy During the Crisis Over Slavery, crisis as fundamentally a crisis of knowing and telling, voicing ontological insecurity as masters and slaves become indistinguishable over suspicions of piracy. The same conjuncture is used in a different context in popular anti-Southern discourses during the Civil War, as decorated letter envelop