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Christopher Smart and satire : 'Mary Midnight' and the midwife / by Min Wild.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wild, Min.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771--Criticism and interpretation.
- Smart, Christopher.
- Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771--Authorship.
- Midwife, or Old woman's magazine (London : 1750-1753).
- Satire, English--History and criticism.
- Satire, English.
- English periodicals--History--18th century.
- English periodicals.
- England--Intellectual life--18th century.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57197-8
- 1-317-16642-6
- 1-317-16641-8
- 1-281-18964-2
- 9786611189648
- 0-7546-8217-X
- 9781315571973
- OCLC:
- 244655960
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