Min Wild

Christopher Smart and Satire

'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780754661931
• ISBN-10: 0754661938
• Artikelnr.: 44973925

Autorenporträt

Min Wild is based in the Department of Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Personal identity and personae in the 18th-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
Appendices
Bibliography
Index.