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Author_Min Wild
Cacoethes Scribendi
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Chevy Chase
Christopher Smart
Dead Man
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Eighteenth Century Periodical
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Financial Revolution
Homer
Inverted Advice
Iron Gates
John Sitter
jubilate
Jubilate Agno
La Mettrie
MAB
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Mary Midnight
Menippean Satire
michigan
midnight
Oriental Tales
Patriot King
Patriot Whig
Peri Bathous
Periodical Persona
Pope's Peri Bathous
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Professional Imaginative Writing
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Superb
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Whispering Gallery
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754661931
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poet's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smart's use of 'Mary Midnight' is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wild's engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smart's often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smart's use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.
Min Wild is based in the Department of Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK.
