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Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century : "By Succession of Delight."
The book stands as a new bench-mark in Smart studies for the 21st century. The essays explore the energy of Christopher Smart's wide-ranging participation in eighteenth-century print culture: not only his often unbuttoned and vigorous writings themselves, but also the multiple cultural fields i...
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Lewisburg :
Bucknell University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Transits (Bucknell University)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Smart on the Page: Readings, Rereadings, and Mis-Readings
- Chapter 1: Marginalia in Smart's Horace: The Reader as Critic
- Chapter 2: Christopher Smart, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the Tradition of Learned Wit
- Chapter 3: Making an Impression: Christopher Smart's Idea of Writing Well
- Chapter 4: Christopher Smart's Elocution
- Part II: Smart in the Madhouse: Revisiting "The Fool for the Sake of Christ"
- Chapter 5: Poised Poesis: Ecstasy in Jubilate Agno
- Chapter 6: Keeping, Deflating, and Transcending "The Fool's Conceit": Smart's Hybridization of Satiric and Devotional Modes in His Translations of the Psalms
- Part III: Smart in (Sunday) School: Reading the Work for Children
- Chapter 7: Breaking the Circle of the Sciences: Newton, Newbery, and Christopher Smart's New Learning
- Chapter 8: The Smallness of Hope, or Reason and the Child: The Case for a Postsecular Christopher Smart
- Part IV: Smart on the Stage: Reviewing Mrs. Midnight's Oratory and Other Pieces
- Chapter 9: Christopher Smart, Mary Midnight, and the Haymarket, 1755
- Chapter 10: Of Calling Cards and Miss Leroche: Christopher Smart and Leicester House
- Chapter 11: The Lady and the Old Woman: Mrs. Midnight the Orator and Her Political Provenance
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors.