{"product_id":"european-erotic-romance-9780719079702","title":"European Erotic Romance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEuropean Erotic Romance\u003c\/em\u003e examines the Renaissance publication and translation of the ancient Greek erotic romances, and English adaptations of the genre by Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare and Lady Mary Sidney Wroth. \u003cbr\u003e Providing fresh insight into the development of the novel, this study identifies the politicisation of erotic romance by the European philhellene (lovers of all things Greek) Protestant movement. To English translators and authors, the complex plots, well developed moralised characters (particularly female) and rhetorical styles of the ancient novels signify political and social reform.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerous quotation and translations ensure that \u003cem\u003eEuropean Erotic Romance\u003c\/em\u003e is accessible to a broad spectrum of readers. Its organisation lends itself to use as a course text. It is suitable for use by senior undergraduates and specialists in Renaissance literature, translation, rhetoric and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe attention paid to the initial reception of Greek romance across Renaissance Europe is unparalleled. This wide-ranging and engaging study will prove especially useful for those interested in the transmission and translation of Greco-Roman texts. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003ePart One: Greco-Roman Romance in the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e1 The Nature of Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003eGreco-Roman Romance of the Second Sophistic and the Renaissance\u003cbr\u003eAphthonius, Philostratus, Ecphrasis and Artistic Style\u003cbr\u003eCharacterisation: Theophrastus and Plutarch\u003cbr\u003ePhilhellenism and the Allegorical Politicisation of Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003e2 Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe \u003cbr\u003eThe Novel as Ecphrasis\u003cbr\u003eAmyot, Translation and the Kings of France\u003cbr\u003eReading, Education and Translation\u003cbr\u003eTranslating Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003eAngel Day, The Shepheards Holidaie and Accession Day, 1587\u003cbr\u003eThe Shepheards Holidaie, Court Drama, and Court Poets\u003cbr\u003eTranslating Eros: Amyot, Day and Thornley\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Thornley’s Itch\u003cbr\u003eAngel Day and Dionysophanes’ Garden\u003cbr\u003eThe End: Nothing But Shepherds’ Games\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e3 Achilles Tatius’s Leukippe and Kleitophon\u003cbr\u003eRhetorics of Love \u003cbr\u003eEuropean Dissemination\u003cbr\u003eBelleforest’s French\u003cbr\u003eBurton and the English Philhellenes\u003cbr\u003eHodges, Erotic Arousal and Sidney’s Arcadia \u003cbr\u003eTranslating the Opening\u003cbr\u003eEuropa: An Ecphrasis\u003cbr\u003eEuropa and Apparent Cyclic Form\u003cbr\u003eKleitophon and Characterisation\u003cbr\u003eKleitophon’s Symbolic Dream\u003cbr\u003eKleinias on Love, Sex and Marriage\u003cbr\u003eKleitophon’s Garden\u003cbr\u003ePantheia’s Dream\u003cbr\u003eDebate on Erotic Love\u003cbr\u003eSexual Predation\u003cbr\u003eMelite and Thersandros\u003cbr\u003eThe Trial and Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e4 Heliodorus’s An Ethiopian Story - Theagenes and Charikleia \u003cbr\u003eCharikliea: Royal Foundling\u003cbr\u003eRenaissance Continental Translations and Philhellene Politics\u003cbr\u003eSandford’s Historie of Chariclia and Theagenes\u003cbr\u003eUnderdowne’s An Aethiopian Historie\u003cbr\u003eFraunce, L’Isle and Gough\u003cbr\u003eExemplary Characters and Moral Lessons\u003cbr\u003eHeliodorus’s Political Romance\u003cbr\u003eHomeric Beginnings\u003cbr\u003eThe Insatiable Demainete\u003cbr\u003eThyamis’s Erotic Dream\u003cbr\u003eThyamis’s Priestly Family\u003cbr\u003eRhodopis: Kalasiris’s Nightmare\u003cbr\u003eHeliodorus’s Cyclic Tales\u003cbr\u003eLeadership and the Law\u003cbr\u003eThyamis Justified\u003cbr\u003eThe Wanton Arsake\u003cbr\u003eThe Wicked Kybele\u003cbr\u003eRecognising Charikleia\u003cbr\u003eLanguage and Nationalism \u003cbr\u003eL’Isle's Political Panegyric\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: Philhellene Erotic Romance \u003cbr\u003e5 National Romance and Sidney’s Arcadia \u003cbr\u003ePolitical Outlines \u003cbr\u003eSelective Monarchomachia\u003cbr\u003eEvolution of Arcadia\u003cbr\u003eUnfolding the Epic Cycle\u003cbr\u003eSub-Plot and Exemplary Character\u003cbr\u003ePhilisides and Tiltyard Masquing \u003cbr\u003eCostume, Device, and Narrative Strategy\u003cbr\u003ePhiloclea’s Bed\u003cbr\u003eEroticising Renaissance Romance\u003cbr\u003eErotic Romance and Erotic Sex\u003cbr\u003eInterest Theory, Philhellene Politics, and Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003eThe Novel as Theatre \u003cbr\u003eLegal and Political Process as Drama\u003cbr\u003eThe End of Romance\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e6 Shakespeare and Philhellene Erotic Romance \u003cbr\u003eShakespeare, Amyot and North’s Plutarch\u003cbr\u003eAmyot-North Diction and Style in Coriolanus (1608)\u003cbr\u003eJulius Caesar (1599), Political Identifiers and the Rhetorics of Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003eAntony, Cleopatra, Octavius and the Huguenots\u003cbr\u003eGreville’s Antony and Cleopatra: Politics and Anti-Romance\u003cbr\u003ePanegyric in Antony and Cleopatra (1606): the Rewards of Patronage \u003cbr\u003eThe Winter’s Tale (1609-10): Exemplary Rapprochement\u003cbr\u003eJealousy, Tyranny, and the Aggressive ‘Royal’ Style\u003cbr\u003eGendering Rhetorics: Thucydides and the Ermine\u003cbr\u003eErotic Closure\u003cbr\u003eCymbeline (1609-10), Rhetorical Style and the Catholic Disjunction\t\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e7 Mary Sidney Wroth’s Urania  \u003cbr\u003ePhilhellene Protestant Erotic Propaganda \u003cbr\u003eDisjunction at the Throne of Love\u003cbr\u003eA French Story\u003cbr\u003eThe Dispossessed: Urania’s Misery\u003cbr\u003eTheatres of Romance\u003cbr\u003eInterest Theory Personalised\u003cbr\u003eTechniques of Elision\u003cbr\u003eAllegorical Parallelism\u003cbr\u003eUrania as Anti-Romance\u003cbr\u003eThe Great Cham and His Dynasty\u003cbr\u003eUrania as Roman à Clef\u003cbr\u003eThe Metamorphosis of Mary Sidney Herbert\u003cbr\u003eTruth and Illusion\u003cbr\u003eRodomandro’s Masque\u003cbr\u003eFemale Abuse and Martyrdom\u003cbr\u003eHereditary Succession and Restoration\u003cbr\u003eLiberation, Restoration and Marital Union\u003cbr\u003eMeriana and the Macedonian Succession\u003cbr\u003eRomania Allegorised\u003cbr\u003eClosing the Sophistic Circle\u003cbr\u003eUrania as Sophistic Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8\u003cbr\u003eThe Fate of a Genre\u003cbr\u003eThe Semiotics of Erotic Romance\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex of Place-Names\u003cbr\u003eGeneral Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037323657559,"sku":"9780719079702","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719079702.jpg?v=1750935291","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/european-erotic-romance-9780719079702","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}