The Romance of the New World : Gender and the Literary Formations of English Colonialism (Paperback)

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.