The Ambiguities of Captain Singleton, Defoe’s Piratical Novel

Daniel Defoe’s Captain Singleton has received modest critical attention, perhaps because it appears to modern readers as a relatively unexciting narrative which endorses piratical theft by unconvincing arguments, and because it passes over in silence the dreadful violence for which pirates were famo...

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Main Author: Robert Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2019-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/1860