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- catalog abstract ""This new biography of Christopher Smart offers a picture of a multifaceted eighteenth-century wit whose writing has far-reaching social, political, and historical significance. Poet, journalist, theater performer, cross-dresser, and theologian, who was questionably incarcerated for insanity, wherever Smart found himself his approach to life was at once serious and joyful, confirming him as one of God's clowns." "Building on previous biographical, bibliographical, and critical work - as well as on a broad scholarship on the publishing trade, on Grub Street and the position of the professional writer, and on the institutional treatment of madness in eighteenth-century England - Chris Mounsey constructs a version of Smart's life that is radically original. In its intelligent use of legal, parliamentary, and other archives, Mounsey both reappraises the familiar source material and mounts a challenge to earlier accounts of Smart's life and career. New interpretations of Smart's relationship with others (including his father-in-law John Newbery), his life on Grub Street as a political satirist, and his involvement in theological speculations provide a fuller and more engaging picture of the social, political, scientific, and religious context of his life and work."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12170096.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This new biography of Christopher Smart offers a picture of a multifaceted eighteenth-century wit whose writing has far-reaching social, political, and historical significance. Poet, journalist, theater performer, cross-dresser, and theologian, who was questionably incarcerated for insanity, wherever Smart found himself his approach to life was at once serious and joyful, confirming him as one of God's clowns." "Building on previous biographical, bibliographical, and critical work - as well as on a broad scholarship on the publishing trade, on Grub Street and the position of the professional writer, and on the institutional treatment of madness in eighteenth-century England - Chris Mounsey constructs a version of Smart's life that is radically original. In its intelligent use of legal, parliamentary, and other archives, Mounsey both reappraises the familiar source material and mounts a challenge to earlier accounts of Smart's life and career. New interpretations of Smart's relationship with others (including his father-in-law John Newbery), his life on Grub Street as a political satirist, and his involvement in theological speculations provide a fuller and more engaging picture of the social, political, scientific, and religious context of his life and work."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "342 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Christopher Smart.".
- catalog identifier "083875483X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Christopher Smart.".
- catalog isPartOf "Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lewisburg, [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; London : Associated University Presses,".
- catalog relation "Christopher Smart.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "821/.6 B 21".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christian poetry, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Journalists Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Literature and mental illness Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "PR3687.S7 Z75 2001".
- catalog subject "Poets, English 18th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatric hospital patients Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771.".
- catalog subject "Verse satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog title "Christopher Smart : clown of God / Chris Mounsey.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".