Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century : "By Succession of Delight."

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wild, Min
Corporate Author: Bucknell University Press
Other Authors: Chevalier, Noel, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, 2013.
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:
Smart, Christopher, > 1722-1771 > Criticism and interpretation.
Smart, Christopher, > 1722-1771
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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