Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire
- 2 Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
- 3 Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood
- 4 Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism
- 5 Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption
- 6 Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida
- 7 The Tempest, “rape,” the art and smart of Virginian husbandry
- Coda: the masks of Pocahontas
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
2 - Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Love's laborers: the busy heroes of romance and empire
- 2 Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596)
- 3 Jack of Newbery and Drake in California: domestic and colonial narratives of English cloth and manhood
- 4 Eros and science: the discourses of magical consumerism
- 5 Gender, savagery, tobacco: marketplaces for consumption
- 6 Inconstancy: coming to Indians through Troilus and Cressida
- 7 The Tempest, “rape,” the art and smart of Virginian husbandry
- Coda: the masks of Pocahontas
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
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- The Romance of the New WorldGender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism, pp. 39 - 61Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998