A collection of essays to mark the tercentenary of the death of writer and politician, Joseph Addison (1672-1719). Cover -- Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Texts and...
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A collection of essays to mark the tercentenary of the death of writer and politician, Joseph Addison (1672-1719). Cover -- Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Texts and Abbreviations -- Periodicals -- Non-periodical Works -- Correspondence -- Musical Examples -- Introduction -- Suspecting Mr Spectator -- Becoming Mr Spectator -- Receiving Mr Spectator -- 1: Addison as Translator -- Critic and Translator -- Commentaries and Predecessors -- 'Mediate Terms' and Intertexts -- Conclusion -- 2: Mr Spectator and the Doctor: Addison and Henry Sacheverell -- An Incredible Friendship -- Friendship, Families, and Entangled Politics -- Poetry and the Post-revolutionary Moment -- Between Academy and Metropolis -- Sociable Whig versus Tory Zealot -- 3: Was Addison a Poet? -- Poetical Incorrectness -- The Muse of Refusal -- 4: Coins and Circulation in Addison's Prose -- Coins and their Value -- Minted Coins and the Printed Word -- 5: Addison as Critic and Critical Theorist -- 6: 'More sensual Delights': Visual Pleasure and Musical Anxiety in Addison's Aesthetics -- A 'visually centered sensationalist aesthetic' -- 'Polite Imagination' -- 'Diaphanous, shining, and polite' -- 'An Image of Liberty' -- 'Lull'd by Sound, and undisturb'd by Wit' -- 'Supple, Unsinew'd, and but half a Man' -- 7: Sociability and Polite Improvement in Addison's Periodicals -- Man, the Sociable Animal -- Philosophy in the Coffee House -- Addisonian Sociability and the Tea Table -- Conclusion: Addison's coffee-housing -- 8: Addison's Modesty, or the Essayist as Spectator -- 9: The Complete Spectator: A Bibliographical History -- The Tonson-Buckley Editions, 1712-14 -- The Tonsons' Spectator, 1718-67 -- The Spectator in Dublin -- The Spectator in Glasgow and Edinburgh -- The Spectator in London, 1767-1812 -- 10: Cato and the Crisis of Rhetoric -- Waiting for Caesar: Rage, Inaction, and the End of Eloquence.
