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Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric by Catherine Bates is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.

What is Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric about?

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 epistl

Who reads Masculinity, Gender and Identity in the English Renaissance Lyric?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Catherine Bates
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780511483455
Category
literary studies
Subjects
Psychology, History, Literary Criticism
Updated
2026-03-25

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