Love, chastity and woman's erotic power: Greek romance in Elizabethan and Jacobean contexts -- "Dissordinate desire" and the construction of geographic otherness in the early modern novella -- Passion and reason in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia -- The thigh and the sword: gender, genre, and sexy dressing in Sidney's New arcadia -- Prisoners of love: cross-cultural and supernatural desires in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania -- Same difference: homo and allo in Lyly's Euphues -- Rogue-sirens: urban seductions and the collapse of amicitia -- Gelding Gascoigne -- "Knights in armes": the homoerotics of the English Renaissance prose romances -- Emasculating romance: historical fiction in the protectorate -- Sidney, Gascoigne and the "bastard poets" -- Unfolding the shepherdess: a revision of pastoral.
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