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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Buccaneers"”.
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Writing at the Edge of the Empire: The Poetics of Piracy in the Early Modern Atlantic World
… written by Caribbean pirates--also known as buccaneers--during the late seventeenth century: Alexander Oliver Exquemelin's 1678 Buccaneers of America, Raveneau de Lussan's 1689 Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, and William Dampier's 1697 New Voyage Round the World. Whereas Raleigh …
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Against death: the American novel after the end of the author
… the circumstances of three posthumous novels—The Buccaneers (1938; 1993; 1993) by Edith Wharton, Juneteenth (1999) by Ralph Ellison, and The Pale King (2011) by David Foster Wallace—and to elaborate in the process new conceptual models of authorship and individuality. Against Death asks us to …
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Pirates in the Age of Projects, 1688-1707
This dissertation retells the history of pirates in the anglophone world, 1688-1707. It argues that the appellation “pirate” became applied to some within global seafaring communities as part of a contest among people of middling means to define the purpose and organisation of overseas expansion. …