Pirates and Piracy in American Popular Culture

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.

Keywords

• daphné du maurier
• pirate fiction
• pirate films
• pirate festival
• rafael sabatini
• robert lewis stevenson