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About the Author
Catherine Bates is Research Professor 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 the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in 1995. She served as Head of Department from 2009 to 2014. She has been awarded a number of fellowships and prizes, including a Solmsen Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for Masculinity and the Hunt: Wyatt to Spenser (OUP, 2013).
Reviews
...wittily titled and thoroughly contrary...This is a fine book....In one sense, Bates has written perhaps the first book in defence of Sidney's defence...Yet her ingenious buttressing of the Defence's weak spots comes under the guise of an attack...If this constitutes a paradox, it is...the kind of paradox that Sidney might, despite himself, have admired. * Robert Stagg, Times Literary Supplement *
On Not Defending Poetry also represents something of a theoretical departure for scholarship on Sidney's Defence....by adopting a 'deconstructionist approach' akin to that of Fredric Jameson, Bates steers away from the trend set by recent scholars who have adhered to the New Historicist methodologies pioneered by the likes of Stephen Greenblatt. * Richard Wood, The English Association *
Deeply learned ... an indispensable book. * Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 *
Awards
Winner of Co-winner of the Fourteenth Annual Elizabeth Dietz Award (2019).
Book Information
ISBN 9780198793779
Author Catherine Bates
Format Hardback
Page Count 318
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 602g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 161mm * 25mm