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Christopher Smart and satire [[electronic resource] ] : 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / / by Min Wild



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Autore: Wild Min Visualizza persona
Titolo: Christopher Smart and satire [[electronic resource] ] : 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / / by Min Wild Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 821/.6
Soggetto topico: Satire, English - History and criticism
English periodicals - History - 18th century
Soggetto geografico: England Intellectual life 18th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Christopher Smart and satire  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-315-57197-8
1-317-16642-6
1-317-16641-8
1-281-18964-2
9786611189648
0-7546-8217-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784898303321
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