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

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

Wild, Min

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral PoetryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0754661938
ISBN13: 9780754661931
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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