‘Alexander the Great and the "Terrible Old Lady": Revisiting Christopher Smart’s Midwife.’

M Wild

‘Alexander the Great and the "Terrible Old Lady": Revisiting Christopher Smart’s Midwife.’

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The article examines Smart's prosopopoeic letter to Alexander the Great in his Midwife magazine. It traces eighteenth-century representations of Alexander the Great and the brutality of war and conquest, and links Smart's letter to contemporary Jacobite discourses.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	279-292
Number of pages	0
Journal	British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 27:2 (2004)
Volume	0
Issue number	0
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2004

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‘Alexander the Great and the "Terrible Old Lady": Revisiting Christopher Smart’s Midwife.’

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