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Knights in arms : prose romance, masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean trade in early modern England, 1565-1655
- Title
- Knights in arms : prose romance, masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean trade in early modern England, 1565-1655 / Goran Stanivukovic.
- Author
- Stanivukovic, Goran V.
- Publication
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xx, 265 pages : maps; 24 cm
- 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."--
- Subject
- 1500-1699
- 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
- Literature
- Romances, English
- Middle East > In literature
- Middle East
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-256) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- pt. 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4991
- ISBN
- 9781442648876
- 1442648872
- OCLC
- 907173894
- Author
- Stanivukovic, Goran V., author.
- Title
- Knights in arms : prose romance, masculinity, and Eastern Mediterranean trade in early modern England, 1565-1655 / Goran Stanivukovic.
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-256) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1500-1699
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4991