‘Our Good Angel’: Women, Moral Influence, and the Nation in Antebellum American Pirate Novels
During the 1840s and 1850s, several American authors wrote remarkably successful novels which featured heroines who donned male garb and assumed male authority, captaining pirate ships, commanding bandit hoards, and ruling bands of outlaws. While these female protagonists initially seemed to challen...
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University of Western Australia
2008-06-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186594/Kent.pdf |