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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Min WildPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9780754661931ISBN 10: 0754661938 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 28 February 2008 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Personal identity and personae in the 18th-century periodical; 'The jakes of genius': the nature of the Midwife; A 'terrible old lady': the persona of 'Mary Midnight'; 'A perfect Swiss in writing': literature and authorship in the Midwife; 'Inwardly working a stirre to the mynde': political satire in the Midwife; The 'kind juggler': social satire and enlightenment in the Midwife; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.Reviews'Min Wild's adroit and witty scholarship is a revelation. Her analysis of identity, satire, politics, and gender in The Midwife, Christopher Smart's explosive monthly magazine of 1750-53, makes for a compelling case study of commercial authorship and imaginative disruption in eighteenth-century print culture, and brilliantly dispels the assumption that journalism and satire stagnated after the fall of Walpole. Wild adds a major new dimension to our understanding of Smart: not only, as Donald Davie famously proposed, the greatest English poet between Pope and Wordsworth , but also one of the most creative, and creatively subversive, journalists in the new age of periodical print'. Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto, Canada '... perhaps the most intensive literary study of an eighteenth-century magazine ever undertaken ... This book illuminates an aspect of Smart that has only recently begun to attract sympathetic interest, but it is not for Smart scholars only. It contributes to the study of eighteenth-century satire more broadly than its title might suggest, and to the history of journalism. It is thoroughly informed by contemporary literary theory...' Times Literary Supplement 'On the topic of authorship, Min's layered readings of the Midnight persona provide stimulating new insights into Smart's practice... ...a noteworthy contribution to this debate...tells us more about the Midwife than we have ever known before...' SHARP News 'Clearly written and with its argument carefully plotted from chapter to chapter, it provides a straightforward and thoughtful read...Chapter 1...provides a good general orientation for the specific investigation into Mary Midnight and Christopher Smart that follows, and chapter 4...is of particular interest in relation to current scholarship on attribution of authorship,' Year's Work in English Studies '...Min Wild's book is an important event. As the first full-length study of Smart's exuberantly transgressive magazine The Midwife (1750-1753), it is also an event in the study of eighteenth-century periodical journalism...Christopher Smart and Satire deserves a very warm welcome. It both enlarges our view of this protean author in particular and enriches our general understanding of the plight of eighteenth-century writers of limited means and grand ambition , as Wild felicitously describes them... It is valuable above all for its examination of political and social - as distinct from moral or literary - satire in The Midwife, aspects of Smart's writing that were largely ignored or contemptuously dismissed by critics in the second half of the twentieth century...(it) includes a shrewd, well-informed analysis of Jacobitism in The Midwife.' Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 'After an expert overview of other classical rhetorical modes of representation in eighteenth-century publications, Min Wild delivers a fresh insight, identifying Smart's kinship with Jonathan Swift, and also his distance from Richard Steele...Min Wild's approach can be rewarding. In every chapter, Wild quotes poems or excerpts from the magazine, printing extracts in the body of her text. Her selection offers the opportunity of a long rethinking of Smart's creation of a carnivalesque character, showing evidence of the constitutive role of irony in the periodical...Min Wild's book is an ambitious project that sets forth a valuable resource for future studies not only for Smart scholars, but also for historians and those interested in the influence of popular literature in the eighteenth century.' CERCLES Reviews 'Min Wild's adroit and witty scholarship is a revelation. Her analysis of identity, satire, politics, and gender in The Midwife, Christopher Smart's explosive monthly magazine of 1750-53, makes for a compelling case study of commercial authorship and imaginative disruption in eighteenth-century print culture, and brilliantly dispels the assumption that journalism and satire stagnated after the fall of Walpole. Wild adds a major new dimension to our understanding of Smart: not only, as Donald Davie famously proposed, the greatest English poet between Pope and Wordsworth , but also one of the most creative, and creatively subversive, journalists in the new age of periodical print'. Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto, Canada '... perhaps the most intensive literary study of an eighteenth-century magazine ever undertaken ... This book illuminates an aspect of Smart that has only recently begun to attract sympathetic interest, but it is not for Smart scholars only. It contributes to the study of eighteenth-century satire more broadly than its title might suggest, and to the history of journalism. It is thoroughly informed by contemporary literary theory...' Times Literary Supplement 'On the topic of authorship, Min's layered readings of the Midnight persona provide stimulating new insights into Smart's practice.... ...a noteworthy contribution to this debate...tells us more about the Midwife than we have ever known before...' SHARP News 'Clearly written and with its argument carefully plotted from chapter to chapter, it provides a straightforward and thoughtful read....Chapter 1...provides a good general orientation for the specific investigation into Mary Midnight and Christopher Smart that follows, and chapter 4...is of particular interest in relation to current scholarship on attribution of authorship,' Year's Work in English Studies '...Min Wild's book is an important event. As the first full-length study of Smart's exuberantly transgressive magazine The Author InformationMin Wild is based in the Department of Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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