Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

• Authors: Richard R. E. Kania
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Daphné du Maurier; pirate fiction; pirate films; pirate festival; Rafael Sabatini; Robert Lewis Stevenson

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 183-194

Dates

published

2014-03-01

online

2014-05-01

Contributors

author

Richard R. E. Kania

• Jacksonville State University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/rjes-2014-0022