Joseph Addison : tercentenary essays / edited by Paul Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Paul (Editor), editor.

A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.

Addison, Joseph.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays is a collection of fifteen essays by a team of internationally recognized experts specially commissioned to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Addison's death in 2019. Almost exclusively known now as the inventor and main author of The Spectator, probably the most widely read and imitated prose work of the eighteenth century, Addison also produced important and influential work across a broad gamut of other literary modes-poems, verse translations, literary criticism, periodical journalism, drama, opera, travel writing. Much of this work is little known nowadays even in specialist academic circles; Addison is often described as the most neglected of the eighteenth century's major writers. 0This volume is the first collection to address the full range and variety of Addison's career and writings. Its fifteen chapters fall into three groupings: the first set study Addison's work in modes other than the literary periodical (poetry, translation, travel writing, drama); the second set address The Spectator from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (literary-critical, sociological and political, bibliographical); and the final set explore Addison's reception within several cultural spheres (philosophy, horticulture, art history), by individual writers or across larger historical periods (the Romantic age, the Victorian age), and in Britain and Europe, especially France. The volume provides an overdue and appropriately diverse memorial to one of the dominant men of letters of the Georgian era.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Addison as Translator / David Hopkins

2. Mr Spectator and the Doctor: Addison and Henry Sacheverell / Brian Cowan

3. Was Addison a Poet? / Paul Davis

4. Coins and Circulation in Addison's Prose / Henry Power

5. Addison as Critic and Critical Theorist / Marcus Walsh

6. `More sensual Delights': Visual Pleasure and Musical Anxiety in Addison's Aesthetics / James A. Winn

7. Sociability and Polite Improvement in Addison's Periodicals / Markman Ellis

8. Addison's Modesty, or the Essayist as Spectator / Fred Parker

9. The Complete Spectator: A Bibliographical History / Hazel Wilkinson

10. Cato and the Crisis of Rhetoric / David Francis Taylor

11. Addison and France / Claire Boulard-Jouslin

12. Addison, Samuel Johnson, and the Test of Time / Robert DeMaria Jr.

13. Nature and Imagination: The Posterity of Addison's `Pleasures' in British Enlightenment Culture / Frederic Ogee

14. Addison and the Romantics / Gregory Dart

15. Addison and the Victorians / Brian Young.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the A. H. Scouten Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780198814030

0198814038

OCLC:

1230461825

Publisher Number:

99988936539