Introduction

Prose fiction and early modern sexualities in England, 1570–1640

Constance C. Relihan, Göran V. Stanivukovic

1-12

Love, chastity, and woman's erotic power

Greek romance in Elizabethan and Jacobean contexts

Darlene C. Greenhalgh

15-42

"Dissordinate desire" and the construction of geographic otherness in the early modern novella

Constance C. Relihan

43-59

Passion and reason in sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia

Lisa Hopkins

61-75

The thigh and the sword

gender, genre, and sexy dressing in Sidney's New arcadia

Steven Mentz

77-91

Prisoners of love

cross-cultural and supernatural desires in Lady Mary Wroth's Urania

Sheila T. Cavanagh

93-110

Same difference

Homo and Allo in Lyly's Euphues

Stephen Guy-Bray

113-127

Rogue-sirens

urban seduction and the collapse of amicitia

Morgan Holmes

129-146

Gelding Gascoigne

Alan Stewart

147-169

"Knights in armes"

the homoerotics of the English renaissance prose romances

Göran V. Stanivukovic

171-192

Emasculating romance

historical fiction in the protectorate

Elizabeth Sauer

195-213

Sidney, Gascoigne, and the "bastard poets"

Robert W. Maslen

215-233

Unfolding the shepherdess

a revision of Pastoral

Lori Humphrey Newcomb

235-255

Afterword

Constance C. Relihan, Göran V. Stanivukovic

257-258