The yard of wit : male creativity and sexuality, 1650-1750 /

"Raymond Stephanson configures masculinity and its expressions in male creativity historically, biographically, and in sufficient deep-layer detail to persuade the most rigorous of scholars that this work will be a reliable source of enduring worth." George Rousseau, De Montfort University...

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Main Authors: Stephanson, Raymond
Corporate Authors: De Gruyter.
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Publisher Address: Philadelphia, Pa. :
Publication Dates: [2004]
©2004
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812203660
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Summary: "Raymond Stephanson configures masculinity and its expressions in male creativity historically, biographically, and in sufficient deep-layer detail to persuade the most rigorous of scholars that this work will be a reliable source of enduring worth." George Rousseau, De Montfort University.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(312pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: 13 illus.
ISBN: 9780812203660
Index Number: PR448
CLC: I561.064
Contents: Frontmatter --
Contents --
Illustrations --
Preface --
1 Introduction: Male Creativity and Its Changing Contexts --
2 Masculinity as Male Genitalia --
3 The Sexual Traffic in Male Creativity --
4 Pope and Male Literary Communities --
Notes --
Works Cited --
Index --
Acknowledgments.