Christopher Smart and Satire: 'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

By Min Wild

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754661938
• ISBN13: 9780754661931
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"