The Yard of Wit
Subtitle: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: November 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780812237580
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Men's studies; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; Male authors; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; Masculinity in literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Reference; 18th century; English literature
First sentence: Discourse about male creativity were fundamentally influenced by three historical transformations: (1) a revised cultural understanding of masculinity as an interiorized sexual identity; (2) a new kind of interest in the male body as the site where masculinity would be registered, with particular emphasis on the connections between the organs of generation and the mind; and (3) the commodification of the literary in an emergent capitalist print culture.