Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy

Susanne Gruss is Professor of English Literature at the University of Bamberg. Her research and publications focus on contemporary British literature and culture as well as on early modern England. Within these broad areas, her specialisms include gender studies and feminist theory, neo-Victorianism, and (film) adaptation; as well as collaboration and/in theatre, piracy, and (early modern) law and literature. Marcus Hartner is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Bielefeld University. His main areas of expertise include early modern English travel literature and (cognitive and historical) narratology, particularly the study of literary character. He is currently working on a monograph on early modern English captivity narratives and co-edits the Handbook of Interdisciplinarity (de Gruyter, with Nadine Böhm-Schnitker).

• List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy - Susanne Gruss and Marcus Hartner, Part I. Political and Economic Entanglements, 1 Pirate Marts and Knockdown Prices: Piracy, Class, and Economics in Early Modern England - Claire Jowitt, 2 Piracy and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean: The British East India Company's Campaign against Atlantic and Angrian Maritime Predation, 1717-24 - David Wilson, 3 Connecting Seas and Epochs: George Walker and Britain's 'Privateers of Force,' 1744-48 - David J. Starkey, 4 Surviving Scarcity: Reconceptualizing Tunisian Corsairing during the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries - Lama Elsharif, Part II. Pirate Mobility, 5 Interconnected Identities: Seventeenth-Century 'Barbary' Pirates, Christian Captives, and Geo-Cultural Mobility - Jo Esra, 6 Confinde to No Limits: John Ward, a Renegade Life in Print - Sue Jones, 7 Wrestling with the Restless Sea: Piracy, European Expansion, and the Further Beyond - Kevin P. McDonald, 8 Anchors Found on High Mountains: Terraqueous Traffic and Pirate Mobility in Walter Ralegh - Johannes Schlegel, Part III. Literary Accounts, 9 Setting the Stage: Transnational Piracy and the Ambiguity of Pirate Identity in the Stukeley Plays - Susanne Gruss, 10 Commerce, Conflict, and Intercultural Contact: Figurations of Polyvalence in Thomas Heywood's The Fair Maid of the West, Part I - Marcus Hartner, 11 From Captive to Privateer: William Rufus Chetwood's The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Robert Boyle (1726) - Stefanie Fricke, About the Contributors, Index