Pirates in History and Popular Culture

Antonio Sanna is a regular contributor to the journals Interactions, Kinema, The Quint and the Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies. He teaches English literature in Sassari and Alghero, Italy.

Table of Contents


Introduction

Part I: Pirates in History

Historical and Fictional Pirates: A Review (Antonio Sanna)

Piratical Societies as the Blueprint for Social Utopia (Clint Jones)

A Pirate Business Model (Christopher Ketcham)

Swashbuckling Sexuality: The Problem with Queer Pirates (Nick Marsellas)

“The ­Boy-Sublime”: Sir Lionel Lindsay and Piracy (Jayson Althofer and Brian Musgrove)

Part II: Pirates in Literature

Sea-Wolves, Smugglers and Seascapes: Captain Cruel Coppinger

and Criminality in Cornwall (Joan Passey)

Piratical Identity, Antarctic Solitude and Stolen Treasure

in The Frozen Pirate (Minke Jonk)

Pirates and Orphans in Literature: From Victorian Boys’ Books

to James Barrie’s Peter Pan (Eurydice Da Silva)

Really Romantic? Pirates in Romantic Fiction (Racheal Harris)

“Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum”: Representations of Drunkenness

in Literary and Cinematic Narratives on Pirates (Antonio Sanna)

Part III: Pirates in Cinema and on

The Image of the Pirate in Adaptations of The Adventures

of Tintin (Michael Charlton)

Masculine Ideal/Cultural Treasure: Long John Silver

in Treasure Planet (Sue Matheson)

“What would the world be like without Captain Hook?”:

A Freudian Analysis of Our Love for (Anti-)Villains (Tiago A.M. Sarmento)

“Take what you can …”: Disney’s Jack Sparrow and His Indebtedness to the Pirate Genre (Susanne Zhanial)

Civilization’s Monsters: The Doomed Queer ­Anti-Imperialism

of Black Sails (Jessica Walker)

Part IV: Pirates in Other Media

The Servant, the Sinner and the Savior: The Pirate in Early Nineteenth Century Italian Opera (Alexandra V. Leonzini)

The Humorous, Sarcastic Case of the Pastafarian Pirates (Jeff Parish)

“Gay and brisk”: Constructing a Pirate’s Image for Children (William Newton)

Being a Pirate: The Use and Purpose of a Piratical Setting

in Rum & Bones (Nicholas Moll)

Pirate as Homo Ludens: Analyzing the Humorous Outlaw

at Play in One Piece (Artur Skweres)

About the Contributors

Index