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.
[Bates] offers fascinating accounts of early modern hunt practices, from blood sports to aristocratic tilting; revisionary arguments about the period's renderings of male subjectivity and desire; sophisticated conceptualizations of narrative voice and lyric utterance; and, above all, brilliant readings of works by Wyatt, Gascoigne, Turberville, Sidney, Greville, and Spenser. Capacious in its ambit, this incisive volume is a major contribution to Renaissance literary and cultural criticism as well as to theories of subjectivity and gender and sexuality studies. --Renaissance Quarterly