Examining how Charles Johnson’s 1724 bestseller General History of the Pyrates depicts figures like Blackbeard both as monsters and Great Men, Noel Chevalier explores how the work untangles the contradictions within a fiercely capitalist slave-trading Britain emerging as a colonial superpower, where ruthlessness and ambition were both feared and praised.
Examining how Charles Johnson’s 1724 bestseller General History of the Pyrates depicts figures like Blackbeard both as monsters and Great Men, Noel Chevalier explores how the work untangles the contradictions within a fiercely capitalist slave-trading Britain emerging as a colonial superpower, where ruthlessness and ambition were both feared and praised.
NOEL CHEVALIER teaches English at Luther College at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. The author of several articles on pirates and pirate literature, he has also edited an edition of David Garrick and George Colman’s The Clandestine Marriage and, with Min Wild, coedited Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-First Century (Bucknell University Press).
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List of Illustrations Preface A Note on Citations Introduction: Monstrous Business 1 A General History of General History Monsters 2 “Let Us Make a Hell of Our Own”: The Pirate as Monster 3 The “Borders of the Possible”: General History, Commerce, and Empire Interlude 4 “Pirate Vices, Publick Benefits”: The Social Ethics of Piracy in the 1720s Great Men 5 Plutarch on the Spanish Main: Pirates and “Great Men” 6 “Their Crimes conspir’d to make ’em Great”: Piracy and the Spectacle of Law Conclusion Appendix: Editions of General History of the Pyrates Notes Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Preface A Note on Citations Introduction: Monstrous Business 1 A General History of General History Monsters 2 “Let Us Make a Hell of Our Own”: The Pirate as Monster 3 The “Borders of the Possible”: General History, Commerce, and Empire Interlude 4 “Pirate Vices, Publick Benefits”: The Social Ethics of Piracy in the 1720s Great Men 5 Plutarch on the Spanish Main: Pirates and “Great Men” 6 “Their Crimes conspir’d to make ’em Great”: Piracy and the Spectacle of Law Conclusion Appendix: Editions of General History of the Pyrates Notes Bibliography Index
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