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Author Stanivukovic, Goran V, author

Title Knights in arms : prose romance, masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean trade in early modern England, 1565-1655 / Goran Stanivukovic
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015

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Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Knights In Arms -- Introduction: Mapping Territories -- Part I The Knight And The Romance Of Trade -- 1. Purchasing Kingdoms In The Eastern Mediterranean -- 2. The Knight On The Silk Road -- 3. The Marriage Of Merchant Kingdoms In Romances About Men -- Part II Intimacy, Sexuality, And The Queer Levant -- 4. Desire And Knightly Masculinity -- 5. Cruising The Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, The Friend, The Favourite, And Homoerotic Romance -- Afterword: Mediterranean Masculinities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English prose literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism
English prose literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
Romances, English -- History and criticism
Masculinity in literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Commerce in literature.
Travel in literature.
Geography in literature.
Chivalry in literature.
English prose literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
Chivalry in literature
Commerce in literature
English prose literature
Geography in literature
Homosexuality in literature
Literature
Masculinity in literature
Romances, English
Travel in literature
SUBJECT Middle East -- In literature
Subject Middle East
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442618916
1442618914