Christopher Smart and satire 'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Aldershot, England
Ashgate
©2008
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| Beschreibung: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index 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 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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| Beschreibung: | 231 pages |
| ISBN: | 075468217X 9780754682172 0754661938 9780754661931 |