Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser

by Catherine Bates

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198778325
• ISBN13: 9780198778325
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages