Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Prodigality, Effeminacy, Fantasy; Chapter 1: Sidney, Nashe, Anger, and the Renaissance Aesthetics of Effeminacy; Chapter 2: Exchanges of Women and Words: Etienne Pasquiers Rewriting of The Courtier; Chapter 3: Effeminacy and the Anxiety of Originality: Astrophil and Stella and the Rime Sparse; Chapter 4: Prose, Femininity, and the Prodigal Triangle in the Decameron and The Old Arcadia; Chapter 5: "The Truest Poetry": Gender, Genre, and Class in As You Like It and A Defence of Poetry.
  • Conclusion: Illusions of OriginalityAppendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.