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 t...

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Main Author:	Bates, Catherine 1964- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007
Subjects:	Geschichte 1570-1630 Masculinity in literature Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature English poetry / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism Geschlechterrolle > Motiv Lyrik Mann > Motiv Englisch
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	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 Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (viii, 263 pages)
ISBN:	9780511483455
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511483455