Table of Contents

Contents

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Noel Chevalier and Min Wild
Part One: Smart on the Page: Readings, Re-readings, and Mis-readings
One: Marginalia in Smart's Horace: The Reader as Critic
Karina Williamson
Two: Christopher Smart, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Smart and the Tradition of Learned Wit
Min Wild
Three: Making an Impression: Christopher Smart's Idea of Writing Well
Rosalind Powell
Four: Christopher Smart's Elocution
Fraser Easton
Part Two: Smart in the Madhouse: Revisiting “The Fool for the Sake of Christ”
Five: Poised Poesis: Ecstasy in Jubilate Agno
Clement Hawes
Six: Keeping, Deflating, and Transcending “The Fool's Conceit”; Smart's Hybridization of Satiric and Devotional Modes in His Translations of the Psalms
William E. Levine
Part Three: Smart in (Sunday) School: Reading the Works for Children
Seven: Breaking the Circle of the Sciences: Newton, Newbery, and Christopher Smart’s New Learning
Noel Chevalier
Eight: The Smallness of Hope, or Reason and the Child: The Case for a Postsecular Christopher Smart
Lori A. Branch
Part Four: Smart on Stage: Re-viewing Mrs. Midnight’s Oratory
Nine: Christopher Smart, Mary Midnight and the Haymarket, 1755
Daniel J. Ennis
Ten: Of Calling Cards and Miss Leroche: Christopher Smart and Leicester House
Chris Mounsey
ElevenThe Lady and the Old Woman: Mrs. Midnight the Orator and her Political Provenance
Debbie Welham
Afterword
Tom Keymer
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors

About the Author

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.