A fellow! I think, in all respects, worthy your esteem and favour”: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724–1734

James, Rebecca 2024. A fellow! I think, in all respects, worthy your esteem and favour”: Fellowship and treachery in A General History of the Pyrates, 1724–1734. Coakley, John, Kwan, Nathan and Wilson, David, eds. The Problem of Piracy in the Early Modern World: Maritime Predation, Empire, and the Construction of Authority at Sea, Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800, Amsterdam University Press, 177 - 200. (10.5117/9789463720960_ch06)

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Abstract

This chapter analyses the representation of the pirate in A General History of the Pyrates between 1724 and 1734. By examining a number of editions, it establishes that the co-operation of pirates of the General History is organised and maintained through fellowships. However, fellowship is most manifest in this text when it is broken, either by treachery or by the performance of bad fellowship. These broken fellowships demonstrate a tension between the values of fellowship and the way that the text hyper values venturesome behaviour. In reading across editions this chapter charts how iterations of the General History offer different profiles of fellowship in this ten-year period, thus changing the representation of the pirate imagined in this highly influential text.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:	978-9463720960
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2025 13:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181594

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