Goran Stanivukovic

Knights in Arms

Prose Romance, Masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean Trade in Early Modern England, 1565-1655

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442648876
• ISBN-10: 1442648872
• Artikelnr.: 42524347

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Mapping Territories
Part I: The Knight and Romances of Trade
1. Purchasing Kingdoms in the Eastern Mediterranean
2. The Knight on the Silk Road
3. The Marriage of Merchant Kingdoms in Romances of Men
Part II: Intimacy, Sexuality, and Queer Levant
4. Desire and Knightly Masculinity
5. Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, the Friend, the
Favourite, and Homoerotic Romance
Afterword: Mediterranean Masculinities