Description: Amid thorny issues of translation and appropriation, imperial rivalry, the rise of commercial authorship, and anxieties about authenticity, Barbara Fuchs traces how early modern English writers borrowed Spanish literary models, triumphantly reimagining the transnational appropriation as heroic looting.
Review Quotes: "The Poetics of Piracy provides compelling insight into the development of English national and religious identity as it works energetically to explore the early modern English literati's fraught relationship with Spain. Scholarly interest in transnational cultural exchange has grown in recent years, not least thanks to Fuchs herself, who has sought both to trace influence and to identify its underlying motive. This book is admirably true to those aims."-- "TLS"