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

by Min Wild (Author), Min Wild (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $153.31

  Explores the 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. This title provides an examination of Christopher Smart's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego.