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UNINA9910813517003321 |
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Autore |
Wild Min |
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Titolo |
Christopher Smart and satire : 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / / by Min Wild |
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Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-315-57197-8 |
1-317-16642-6 |
1-317-16641-8 |
1-281-18964-2 |
9786611189648 |
0-7546-8217-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Satire, English - History and criticism |
English periodicals - History - 18th century |
England Intellectual life 18th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Personal Identity and Personae in the Eighteenth-Century Periodical; 2 'The Jakes of Genius': The Nature of the Midwife; 3 A 'Terrible Old Lady': The Persona of 'Mary Midnight'; 4 'A Perfect Swiss in Writing': Literature and Authorship in the Midwife; 5 'Inwardly Working a Stirre to the Mynde': Political Satire in the Midwife; 6 The 'Kind Juggler': Social Satire and Enlightenment in the Midwife; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Min Wild explores the idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on Christopher Smart's underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine. In analysing Smart's adoption of a peculiarly female persona, 'Mary Midnight', Wild reveals a learned and ribald wit satirically engaging with questions of gender, politics, and culture. Wild also offers insight into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers found themselves as ideas on the nature of authorship were being transformed |
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