Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

Richard R. E. Kania

doi:10.2478/rjes-2014-0022

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Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

Romanian Journal of English Studies

Volume 11 (2014): Issue 1 (March 2014)

By: Richard R. E. Kania

Open Access

|May 2014

Abstract

Piracy is both an ancient and a modern social ill. Yet in American popular culture pirates have emerged as dashing heroic figures and Robin Hoods of the Sea. Some examples of this transformation of the pirate image from criminal to popular hero are explored in British and American fiction, cinema and other forms of popular culture.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0022 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0428 | Journal ISSN: 1584-3734

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Language: English

Page range: 183 - 194

Published on: May 1, 2014

Published by: West University of Timisoara

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Keywords:

Robert Lewis Stevenson

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