This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious conflicts demanded a rethinking of some of the most fundamental terms of early modern identity.

Autorentext
BENEDICT ROBINSON is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.

Inhalt
Romance, the 'Turk,' and Europe Secret Faith Leaving Claribel Unfinished Romance Strange Commodities Pleasure and Terror