Trade and romance
By: Michael Murrin
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780226071572; 9780226071602
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Romances; History and criticism; Commerce; History; In literature; Huon de Bordeaux
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-311) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Asian trade and heroic narrative from Marco Polo to Milton; title: Part 1. The Mongols; title: Marco Polo and the marvelous real; title: A paradise for killers: Marco Polo and the garden of the assassins; title: The squire's tale: romance as mask; title: Morgana and Manodante: Boiardo and the aristocratic response to mercantilism; title: Part 2. The portuguese; title: Huon at the castle of Adamant; title: First encounter: the Christian-Hindu confusion when the Portuguese reached India; title: Camões and the discovery of India: the negative side; title: Surviving enchantment: Vasco da Gama's first voyage in Os lusíadas: the interplay between experience and classical models; title: Part 3. The English; title: Spenser, Marlowe, and the English search for Asian silk; title: The audience of The Faerie Queene; title: Waning of a dream: a brief history of Moscovia and Paradise lost; title: A wood in the desert; title: Appendix 1: The devaluation of the squire and his tale; title: Appendix 2: Henry's search for spices; title: Appendix 3: Vergil in Camões.