Knights in Arms: Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655 - Couverture rigide

Stanivukovic, Goran

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442648872 ISBN 13 : 9781442648876

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2016

Synopsis

Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity - commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant. Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney's Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Goran Stanivukovic highlights how eroticism within prose romances, particularly homoerotic desire, facilitated commercial, cross-ethnic, and cross-cultural interactions, shaping European knowledge and conceptions of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire. Through his careful examination of these lesser known works, Stanivukovic sheds important light on early modern trade, Mediterranean politics, and the changing meaning of masculinity in an age of commercial expansion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Goran Stanivukovic is a professor in the English Department at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442648872
• ISBN 13: 9781442648876
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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