Guardians of the Golden Age seeks out the most Uncanny Explorers! Dick Ashton searches for The Secret City, Catman and Kit fight The Phantom Mummy, Wambi the Jungle Boy tries to bring peace to the wild kingdom, Buck Johnson goes on a safari, the Purple Rider investigates the Evil Eclipse, Trader Jim tells some Jungle Tales, Terry Kane goes to Utopia, Argo looks for an undersea kingdom, Cap'n Jerry clashes with cannibals, and the Congo King rules the jungle! 100 Big Pages!

Guardians of the Golden Age seeks out the most Uncanny Explorers! Dick Ashton searches for The Secret City, Catman and Kit fight The Phantom Mummy, Wambi the Jungle Boy tries to bring peace to the wild kingdom, Buck Johnson goes on a safari, the Purple Rider investigates the Evil Eclipse, Trader Jim tells some Jungle Tales, Argo looks for an undersea kingdom, Cap'n Jerry clashes with cannibals, and the Congo King rules the jungle! 100 Big Pages!

Twelve scholars of piracy show why pirates thrived in the New World seas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empires, how pirates operated their plundering ventures, how governments battled piracy, and when and why piracy declined. The essays presented take the study of piracy, which can eaisly lapse into rousing, romanticized stories, to new heights of rigor and insight. The Golden Age of Piracy also delves into the enduring status of pirates as pop culture icons. Audiences have devoured stories about cutthroats such as Blackbeard and Henry Morgan from the time that pirates sailed the sea. By looking at the ideas of gender and sexuality surrounding the pirate stories, the fad for hunting pirate treasure, and the construction of pirate myths, the book's contributors tell a new story about the dangerous men, and a few dnagerous women, who terrorized the high seas

Swoon is the first extensive study of literary swooning, homing in on swooning’s rich history as well as its potential to provide new insights into the contemporary. This study demonstrates that passing-out has had a pivotal place in English literature. Beginning with an introduction to the swoon as a marker of aesthetic sensitivity, it includes chapters on swooning and generic transformation in Chaucer and Shakespeare; morbid, femininised swoons and excessive affect in romantic, gothic, and modernist works; irony, cliché and bathos in the swoons of contemporary romance fiction. This book revisits key texts to show that passing-out has been intimately connected to explorations of emotionality, ecstasy and transformation; to depictions of sickness and dying; and to performances of gender and gendering. Swoon offers an exciting new approach the history of the body alongside the history of literary response.