Christopher Smart and Satire: 'Mary Midnight' and the MidwifeAshgate Publishing, Ltd., 2008 - 231 pages Min Wild explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the 18th-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. She takes Christopher Smart's underexplored 'Midwife' as her primary source. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Personal Identity and Personae in the EighteenthCentury Periodical | 15 |
The Jakes of Genius The Nature of the Midwife | 43 |
A Terrible Old Lady The Persona of Mary Midnight | 73 |
A Perfect Swiss in Writing Literature and Authorship in the Midwife | 103 |
Inwardly Working a Stirre to the Mynde Political Satire in the Midwife | 133 |
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