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.

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

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