Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Note on Editions, Translations, and Abbreviations xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Romance Globe: Why the Renaissance Repainted Greek Romance 19
8. 2. Converso Convertida: Cross-Dressed Narration and Ekphrastic Interpretation in Leucippe and Clitophon and Clareo y Florisea 47
9. 3. Amazon Eyes and Shifting Emblems in Sidney’s Greek Arcadia 66
10. 4. Painting Counterfeit Canvases: Heliodoran Pictographs, American Lienzos, and European Imaginings of the Barbarian in Cervantes’s Persiles 100
11. 5. Pictura Locorum: Heliodoran Hieroglyphs and Anglo-African Identity in Barclay’s Argenis 128
12. 6. ‘We are all picturd in that Piece’: Lovers, Persians, Tartars, and the ‘Tottering’ Romance Globe in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania 158
13. Conclusions 196
14. Notes 203
15. Works Cited 229
16. Index 249