Benedict Robinson

Islam and Early Modern English Literature: The Politics of Romance from Spencer to Milton

Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 09 May 2008, 248 Pages

234×156 mm, 9781403977939

£40.00

Description

This book traces the process through which authors like Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton adapted, rewrote, or resisted romance, mapping a world in which new cross-cultural contacts and religious conflicts demanded a rethinking of some of the most fundamental terms of early modern identity.

Contents

Romance, the ‘Turk,’ and Europe
Secret Faith
Leaving Claribel
Unfinished Romance
Strange Commodities
Pleasure and Terror

Author Biographies

BENEDICT ROBINSON is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.