Cargando…

Christopher Smart and satire : 'Mary Midnight' and 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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wild, Min
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (231 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-217) and index.
ISBN:075468217X
9780754682172