Sir Kenelm Digby's Interruptions: Piracy and Lived Romance in the 1620s.
Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-65) spent the year 1628 as a privateer in the Mediterranean. During his time at sea he not only performed notable feats of heroism but wrote an autobiographical romance titled Loose Fantasies on the island of Milos. This essay offers a new account of the historical significanc...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Philology Vol. 113; no. 2; pp. 424 - 484 |
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