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36 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management

University of Bedfordshire

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Article title

Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, and the Barbary Pirates

Type

D - Journal article

DOI

10.1093/english/efs061

Title of journal

English

Article number

Volume number

Issue number

236

First page of article

ISSN of journal

1756-1124

Year of publication

2013

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

An article (of about 7,000 words) exploring and contexualising the episode in Robinson Crusoe where Crusoe is captured by pirates and spends two years as a slave in Morocco. It argues that the activities of the ‘Barbary pirates’ and stories of their treatment of Christian slaves were of keen interest to Defoe and his contemporaries. Defoe regarded the pirates as a serious threat to the development of international trade, and frequently called for the establishment of a pan-European military force to suppress them.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract