Introduction -- The pirate account as eighteenth-century news -- Bryon's performing pirates -- Walter Scott's The pirate and the exercise of property -- James Fenimore Cooper's American pirates -- Adapting Dickens and the perils of some pirates -- The piracy accusation in Gilbert and Sullivan's The pirates of Penzance -- Citing pirates in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island -- Collaborative authorship and impersonation in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan -- Conclusion
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index