Bates, Catherine, 1964- (2010) Masculinity, gender and identity in the English Renaissance lyric. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780521153751

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Abstract

In early modern lyric poetry, the male poet or lover often appears not as powerful and masterly but rather as broken, abject, and feminine. Catherine Bates examines the cultural and literary strategies behind this representation and uncovers radically alternative models of masculinity in the lyric tradition of the Renaissance. Focusing on Sidney, Ralegh, Shakespeare, and Donne, she offers astute readings of a wide range of texts - a sonnet sequence, a blazon, an elegy, a complaint, and an epistle. She shows how existing critical approaches have too much invested in the figure of the authoritative male writer to be able to do justice to the truly radical nature of these alternative masculinities. Taking direction from psychoanalytic theories of gender formation, Bates develops critical strategies that make it possible to understand and appreciate what is genuinely revolutionary about these texts and about the English Renaissance lyric tradition at large.

Item Type:	Book
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Masculinity in literature, Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature, English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:	Cambridge
ISBN:	9780521153751
Date:	2010
Number of Pages:	263
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/37353

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