“Though I Am a Woman, I Am Not a Defenceless One!”: Women and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Pirate Stories
Resonating with British and American audiences and inspiring many later pirate stories, Byron’s <i>The Corsair</i> (1814) participated in a transatlantic conversation about female responses to violent masculinity. In an 1869 Rhode Island newspaper article, a woman recalled reading <i&...
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MDPI AG
2022-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/4/91 |