Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty-first Century (eBook)
274 Seiten
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-520-2 (ISBN)
Front Flap:Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these. He was, and remains, a mercurial individual, an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material depths. His paradoxical exuberance fascinates scholars of eighteenth-century culture, and this collection of essays, a snapshot of current scholarship from both new and established Smart scholars, offers, among others, literary, theological, dramatic and philosophical perspectives on his writing. Here are new ways of reading familiar Smart works including the astonishing, devout poem of his incarceration, Jubilate Agno and unfamiliar ones, such as his translations and writing for children. Unexpected readers of Smart, from Coleridge to a testy anonymous annotator, are examined, and Smarts sacred translations and profane stage presence each find a place. Tom Keymers re-evaluating afterword finds the quality of ';betweenness' in Smarts work: between eras, between genres, between forms, Smarts vitality demands reassessment for each new generation of readers. Contributors: Karina Williamson, Min Wild, Rosalind Powell, Fraser Easton, Clement Hawes, William E. Levine, Noel Chevalier, Lori A. Branch, Daniel J. Ennis, Chris Mounsey, Debbie Welham, Tom Keymer.Back Flap:The editors Min Wilds monograph Christopher Smartand Satire on Smarts Midwife, was published in 2008, and various articles and reviews of a Smartian bent have followed. Her interest in that eighteenth-century favorite, the literary mode of prosopopoeia, has led her to investigate the personification of words, texts and literary modes themselves. Shelectures in eighteenth-century literature and theory at Plymouth University, UK, and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere.Noel Chevalier is Associate Professor of English at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada. He has published articles on Jubilate Agno and on Smart's challenge to ';legitimate' playhouses in Mrs. Midnight'sOratory. Although his specialty lies in the eighteenth century, his teaching and research cover a diverse range of topics, from literary responses to the Bible, to the roots of globalization, to literary representations of science and scientists. He has helped create two interdisciplinary programs at Luther: one which addresses literature for students in the sciences, and one which explores the philosophical, political, economic, and cultural contexts of globalization.Jacket illustration: Amaryllis sarniensis or Guernsey Amaryllis, from William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-GardenDisplayed, Vol. IX. No. 294. London, 1795.
Min Wild lectures in eighteenth-century literature and theory at Plymouth University, UK. She is the author of Christopher Smart and Satire (Ashgate, 2008). Noel Chevalier teaches English at Luther College, University of Regina. He has published articles on Jubilate Agno and on Smart’s challenge to “legitimate” playhouses in Mrs. Midnight’s Oratory.
ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations IntroductionNoel Chevalier and Min WildPart One: Smart on the Page: Readings, Re-readings, and Mis-readingsOne: Marginalia in Smart's Horace: The Reader as CriticKarina WilliamsonTwo: Christopher Smart, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Smart and the Tradition of Learned Wit Min WildThree: Making an Impression: Christopher Smart's Idea of Writing Well Rosalind PowellFour: Christopher Smart's ElocutionFraser EastonPart Two: Smart in the Madhouse: Revisiting “The Fool for the Sake of Christ”Five: Poised Poesis: Ecstasy in Jubilate AgnoClement HawesSix: Keeping, Deflating, and Transcending “The Fool's Conceit”; Smart's Hybridization of Satiric and Devotional Modes in His Translations of the Psalms William E. LevinePart Three: Smart in (Sunday) School: Reading the Works for ChildrenSeven: Breaking the Circle of the Sciences: Newton, Newbery, and Christopher Smart’s New LearningNoel Chevalier Eight: The Smallness of Hope, or Reason and the Child: The Case for a Postsecular Christopher SmartLori A. BranchPart Four: Smart on Stage: Re-viewing Mrs. Midnight’s OratoryNine: Christopher Smart, Mary Midnight and the Haymarket, 1755 Daniel J. EnnisTen: Of Calling Cards and Miss Leroche: Christopher Smart and Leicester House Chris MounseyElevenThe Lady and the Old Woman: Mrs. Midnight the Orator and her Political Provenance Debbie WelhamAfterword Tom KeymerBibliography Index About the Contributors
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.9.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850 |
Zusatzinfo | 3 Illustrations including: - 3 Black & White Illustrations. |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
Kinder- / Jugendbuch | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Schlagworte | 18th-Century Literature • 18th-Century Studies • eighteenth-century literature • Eighteenth-Century Studies • Literary Studies • Restoration literature • World literature |
ISBN-10 | 1-61148-520-7 / 1611485207 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-61148-520-2 / 9781611485202 |
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