Christopher Smart and satire : 'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

Christopher Smart and satire : 'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife / Min Wild.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wild, Min
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Subjects:
Smart, Christopher, > 1722-1771 > Criticism and interpretation.
Smart, Christopher, > 1722-1771 > Authorship.
Smart, Christopher, > 1722-1771
Smart, Christopher > Satire.
Smart, Christopher.
Midwife, or Old woman's magazine (London : 1750-1753)
1700-1799
Satire, English > History and criticism.
English periodicals > History > 18th century.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Authorship
English periodicals
Intellectual life
Satire, English
Satire
Literarische Gestalt
Zeitschrift
England > Intellectual life > 18th century.
England
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Personal identity and personae in the eighteenth-century periodical
  • 'The jakes of genius' : the nature of the Midwife
  • A 'terrible old lady' : the persona of 'Mary Midnight'
  • 'A perfect Swiss in writing' : literature and authorship in the Midwife
  • 'Inwardly working a stirre to the mynde' : political satire in the Midwife
  • The 'kind juggler' : social satire and enlightenment in the Midwife.

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