Christopher Smart and satire
Subtitle: 'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife
By: Min Wild.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780754661931
Subjects: Smart, Christopher, -- 1722-1771 -- Criticism and interpretation; Smart, Christopher, -- 1722-1771 -- Authorship; Midwife, or Old woman's magazine (London : 1750-1753); Satire, English -- History and criticism; English periodicals -- History -- 18th century; England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Personal identity and personae in the eighteenth-century periodical; title: 'The jakes of genius' : the nature of the Midwife; title: A 'terrible old lady' : the persona of 'Mary Midnight'; title: 'A perfect Swiss in writing' : literature and authorship in the Midwife; title: 'Inwardly working a stirre to the mynde' : political satire in the Midwife; title: The 'kind juggler' : social satire and enlightenment in the Midwife.