Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexuality,1570-1640

Introduction: Prose Fiction and Early Modern Sexualities in England, 1570-1640; C.C.Relihan & G.V.Stanivukovic PART I: GENDER, GENRE, AND SEXUALITY Love, Chastity and Woman's Erotic Power: Greek Romances in Elizabethan and Jacobean Context; D.C.Greenhalgh 'Dissordinate Desire' and the Construction of Geographic Otherness in the Early Modern Novella; C.C.Relihan Passion and Reason in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia; L.Hopkins The Thigh and the Sword: Gender, Genre, and Sexy Dressing in Sidney's New Arcadia; S.Mentz Prisoners of Love: Crosscultural and Supernatural Desires in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania; S.T.Cavanagh PART II: QUEER FICTIONS Same Difference: Homo and Allo in Lyly's Euphues; S.Guy-Bray Rogue-Sirens: Urban Seductions and the Collapse of Amicitia; M.Holmes Gelding Gascoigne; A.Stewart 'Knights in Armes': The Homoerotics of the English Renaissance Prose Romances; G.V.Stanivukovic PART III: TEXTUALITY AND DESIRE Emasculating Romance: Historical Fiction in the Protectorate; E.Sauer Sidney, Gascoigne and the 'Bastard Poets'; R.W.Maslen Unfolding the Shepherdess: A Revision of Pastoral; L.H.Newcomb Afterword