<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> 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.</p></abstract>

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.

Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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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....

Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 183 - 194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0022

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

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

Published Online: May 01, 2014

Page range: 183 - 194

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0022

KeywordsDaphné du Maurier, pirate fiction, pirate films, pirate festival, Rafael Sabatini, Robert Lewis Stevenson

© Romanian Journal of English Studies

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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