Christopher Smart and satire : 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / / by Min Wild

• Autore: Wild Min
• Pubblicazione: Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• 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
• 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.: 9910813517003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II