FREN 220 Pirates of the Caribbean in Atlantic Literature
Whether as freebooters, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, marauders, swashbucklers or sea rovers, pirates have long captured the Atlantic imagination. But why? This course interrogates the concept of piracy from its earliest manifestations to our present day. We will focus primarily on the "golden age" of Atlantic piracy in the 17th and 18th centuries and its artistic re-imagining in the 19th and 20th centuries. Taught in English. Fulfills humanities and literature requirements. Meets Explorations in Literature requirement.