Table of Contents:
  • 1. Pirate chic : tracing the aesthetics of literary piracy / Mel Campbell
  • 2. The pirate poet in the nineteenth century : Trollope and Byron / Deborah Lutz
  • 3. Playing pirate : real and imaginary Angrias in Branwell Brontë's writing / Joetta Harty
  • 4. Ho! For China : piratical incursions, free trade imperialism and modern Chinese history, c. 1832-1834 / Ting Man Tsao
  • 5. The wreck of the Corsair : piracy, political economy and American publishing / Andrew Lyndon Knighton
  • 6. Female pirates and nationalism in nineteenth-century American popular fiction / Katherine Anderson
  • 7. Mutiny on the Orion : the legacy of the Hermione mutiny and the politics of nonviolent protest in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South / Deborah Denenholz Morse
  • 8. Acts of piracy : Black Ey'd Susan, theatrical publishing and the Victorian stage / Kate Mattacks
  • 9. The perils of empire : Dickens, Collins and the Indian mutiny / Garrett Ziegler
  • 10. Pirates for boys : masculinity and degeneracy in R.M. Ballantyne's adventure novels / Grace Moore
  • 11. Piracy, race and domestic peril in Hard cash / Sean Grass
  • 12. The pirates of Penzance : the slaves of duty in an age of piracy / Abigail Burnham Bloom
  • 13. 'Dooty is dooty' : pirates and sea-lawyers in Treasure Island / Alex Thomson
  • 14. Staging the pirate : the ambiguities of representation and the significance of convention / Victor Emeljanow
  • 15. Bram Stoker's The mystery of the sea : law and lawlessness, piracy and protectionism / Carol A. Senf
  • 16. Piracy and the ends of romantic commercialism : Victorian businessmen meet Malay pirates / Tamara S. Wagner.