Masculinity and the Hunt : Wyatt to Spenser
ISBN: 9780199657117 | 0199657114
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/19/2013
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As an age-old metaphor for the sexual chase, the hunt provides a uniquely conflicted site for the representation of masculinity. On the one hand, hunting had from ancient times served to define a particular and culturally approved mode of masculinity as heroic, pursuant, and goal-oriented, where success was measured by the achievement of the objectives set: the capture and killing of prey. When applied to love, on the other hand, hunting was inflected quite differently. At first glance, the basic scenario of a male subject pursuing elusi... MORE
1. Masculinity and the Hunt
2. Wyatt's Broken Hart
SHOOTING AWRY I
3. Gascoigne's Prick
4. George Turberville and the Painful Art of Falconry
SHOOTING AWRY II
5. Cupid's Bow and Boys' Play in the Sonnets of Sidney and Greville
6. Sidney's Ambivalent Huntsmen
7. Hunt, Quest, and Desire in The Faerie Queene
Catherine Bates is Professor of English in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. She studied English at Oxford and was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and of Peterhouse, Cambridge, before moving to Warwick in 1995.
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