Christopher Smart and Satire

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 Smart''s audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman''s Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich ...