Renaissance Romance examines how and why the fears and expectations surrounding the old genre of romance resonated in early modern England. Examining a range of texts and the fiction of Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Greene and Lady Mary Wroth in particular, Das illustrates the sheer cultural persistence of romance, and reveals how a generational consciousness inherent in the genre transformed the new prose fiction of the period.

Nandini Das is lecturer in Renaissance English literature at the University of Liverpool and the editor of Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585).

Introduction; Chapter 1 Wandering Knights; Chapter 2 Sidney's Arcadian Expectations; Chapter 3 Errant Scholars; Chapter 4 The Tales of 'Robin Greene'; Chapter 5 Deviant Women; Chapter 6 'Dancing in a Net'; Chapter 101 Afterword;