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"Gentlemen of fortune": class discourses in Daniel Defoe's A general history of the pyrates

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dc.contributor.author Haider Caetano, A. Thaïs
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-24T10:22:09Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-24T10:22:09Z
dc.date.issued 2023-07-27
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57781
dc.description Treball de Fi de Grau en Humanitats. Curs 2022-2023
dc.description Tutor: Pere Gifra Adroher
dc.description.abstract While the phenomenon of piracy has existed for centuries and is still present in our times, few are as present in the popular imagination as the pirates of the Golden Age of Piracy of the Eighteenth Century. Despite the lack of primary sources and the sensationalism with which later works discussed this topic, a number of these pirates are still known today, their image shifting from that of a near-positive, romanticised hero to that of a dehumanised fugitive of the law. The purpose of this thesis is to analyse the portrayal of a few of the pirates present in Daniel Defoe’s A General History of the Pyrates with the perspective of class and property in mind, connecting such notions to the time of publishing, the public opinion of pirates, and how these depictions helped create our contemporary images of Golden Age western pirates.
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dc.language.iso eng
dc.rights This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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dc.subject.other Treball de fi de grau – Curs 2022-2023
dc.title "Gentlemen of fortune": class discourses in Daniel Defoe's A general history of the pyrates
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis
dc.subject.keyword Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
dc.subject.keyword Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. General history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates
dc.subject.keyword Naval literature
dc.subject.keyword Class
dc.subject.keyword Gentry
dc.subject.keyword Gentility
dc.subject.keyword Propriety
dc.subject.keyword Crime
dc.subject.keyword Buccaneering
dc.subject.keyword Golden age of piracy
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