Introduction -- Perverse Implantations -- The Erotic Politics of Os Lusíadas -- Discipline and Love -- Polygamy and the Arts of Reduction -- The Ideology of Interracial Romance -- English Whiteness and the End of Romance
Summary
Drawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, this book shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-247) and index