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Christopher Smart and Satire
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Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smarts audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Womans Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poets adoption of the bizarre, sardonic Mary Midnight as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smarts use of Mary Midnight is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wilds engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smarts often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smarts use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.
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