Joseph Addison : tercentenary essays / edited by Paul Davis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Paul, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.

Addison, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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. This volume addresses the full range and variety of Addison's career and writings.

Contents:

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.

Panting for Virtue: Tragedy and the Rhetoric of Sentimentalism

11: Addison and France

Addison and the French querelle

Addison and French Ideas of Englishness

12: Addison, Samuel Johnson, and the Test of Time

13: Nature and Imagination: The Posterity of Addison's 'Pleasures' in British Enlightenment Culture

14: Addison and the Romantics

The Round Table

Elegant Sermonizing

Against Politeness

The Triumphant Reign of the First Person Singular

The Honeymoon of Authorship

Natural Discourse

15: Addison and the Victorians

English Men of Letters and Manly Fellows

Literary Biography and Histories of Opinion

Addison's Anglicanism and Victorian Agnosticism

Aikin's Addison

Appendix: The Complete Spectator, 1712-1812: A Bibliographical Catalogue

Section A: Tonson Editions 1712-67

A1a. The first Tonson-Buckley octavo edition, 1712-15

A1b. The first Tonson-Buckley octavo edition, variant setting of vol. 1, 1712

A1c. The first Tonson-Buckley duodecimo edition, 1712-15

A2a. The second Tonson octavo edition, with Samuel Buckley, 1713-17

A2b. The second Tonson duodecimo edition, with Samuel Buckley, 1713-17

A3. The third Tonson-Buckley duodecimo edition, vols 1-2, 1714

A4. The fourth Tonson duodecimo edition, 1718

A5. The fifth Tonson duodecimo edition, 1720

A6. The sixth Tonson duodecimo edition, 1723

A7. The seventh Tonson duodecimo edition, their first in sixteen vols, 1724

A8. The eighth Tonson duodecimo edition, 1726

A9/10. The ninth/tenth Tonson duodecimo edition, 1729

A11. The eleventh Tonson duodecimo edition, 1733

A12. The twelfth Tonson duodecimo edition, 1738-9

A13. [Thirteenth] Tonson duodecimo edition, 1744

A14. [Fourteenth] Tonson edition, with Somerset Draper, their first in 18°, 1747.

A15. [Fifteenth] Tonson edition, with Somerset Draper, their third in octavo, and first with Francis Hayman's illustrations as t.p. vignettes, 1747

A16. [Sixteenth] Tonson edition, with Somerset Draper, in duodecimo, 1749

A17a. [Seventeenth] Tonson edition, with Somerset Draper, in duodecimo, with a ninth vol. added, 1753

A17b. [Seventeenth] Tonson edition, with Somerset Draper, with variant t.ps, 1753

A18. [Eighteenth] Tonson edition, their fourth in octavo, 1757

A19. The Tonsons' final edition, in duodecimo, 1767

A20. Undated Tonson-Draper edition in duodecimo (possibly pirated), c.1750s

Section B: London Editions (not by the Tonsons)

B1. For Daniel Midwinter, 1763

B2. For D. Williams and P. Dods, 1765

B3. Printer/publisher unknown, 1771

B4. Large consortium of publishers, 1775

B5. London-Edinburgh edition, published by Gardner, Gray, and Anderson, 1776

B6. Printed in London for a consortium of publishers in York, Halifax, Newcastle, Dumfries, Edinburgh, Dublin, Stirling, Aberdeen, 1776

B7. For John Coote, 1777-8

B8. For Richard Eyres (vol. 1) and John Coote (vols 2-8), 1778

B9a. Harrison's British Classics, vols 4-5, 1786

B9b. Harrison's British Classics, vols 4-5 (B8a reissued with new t.ps), 1793

B10. First Percy-Calder edition, 1788

B11. Second Percy-Calder edition, printed by H. Hughs (1-2) T. Wright (3-4), T. Spilsbury (5-6), T. Bensley (7-8), for a consortium of publishers, 1789

B12. For J. Parsons, illustrated by Corbould, 1793

B13a. Robert Bisset's edition, printed for George Robertson and J. S. Jordan, 1793-4

B13b. Robert Bisset's edition, a reissue of B13a with new t.ps, 1799

B14. Percy-Calder edition, London, undated

c.1792-6

B15. For J. Parsons, 1796

B16. Percy-Calder edition, reprinted by H. Baldwin, 1797.

B17. 'Printed for the Booksellers', with biographical sketches and notes, 1797

B18. 1799 edition, 'Printed for the Booksellers'

B19. Published by Andrew Miller, 1800

B20. Annotated edition, London 1801

B21. Whittingham for Sharpe, illustrated, London, 1803

B22. Alexander Chalmers's edition, 1808

B23. 1811 London edition, 8 vols in 1

Section C: Dublin Editions

C1. First Dublin edition

George Grierson's first edition, 1728

C2. Second Dublin edition

Philip Crampton's first edition, 1735

C3a. Third Dublin edition

Philip Crampton's second edition, 1737

C3b. Philip Crampton's second edition (C3a), reissued by Peter Wilson, 1748

C4. Fourth Dublin edition, a reprint in octavo of Grierson's first edition (C1), 1748

with the translation of the mottoes from C3a and C3b reissued (1737)

C5. Fifth Dublin edition, for Grierson and Ewing, 1753

C6. Sixth Dublin edition

Peter Wilson's first edition, 1754

C7a. Printed for Peter Wilson, 1755 (probably C6 reissued with cancellans t.ps)

C7b. Printed for Peter Wilson, 1755

C8. Eighth Dublin edition, for W. Wilson, 1778

Section D: Glasgow Editions

D1. First Glasgow edition, printed by R. Urie and Company for A. Stalker and J. Barry, 1745

D2. Second Glasgow edition, printed for A. Stalker and R. Urie, 1750

D3. Third Glasgow edition, first by William Duncan Jr, 1757

D4. Printed by A. Duncan and Company, for James Knox, William Marshall, and James Duncan, 1767

D5. Printed by Robert Duncan, for J. Robb and R. Duncan, 1769

D6a. Printed by David Niven, 1791

D6b. A reissue of D6a with new t.ps, listing a larger group of publishers, 1791

Section E: Edinburgh Editions

E1. First Edinburgh edition, printer and publisher unknown, 1753

E2. Second Edinburgh edition, printed by Hamilton, Balfour, and Neill, for John Wood, 1761.

E3. Third Edinburgh edition, first by A. Donaldson, 1766

E4. Fourth Edinburgh edition, for William Darling, 1769

E5a. Fifth Edinburgh edition, for John Bell, 1776

E5b. John Bell's edition, with his name removed from the t.p., 1776

E6a. Sixth Edinburgh edition, first by D. Paterson for J. Spottiswood, 1785

E6b. Paterson's edition with a variant t.p., naming publisher as William Coke, in Leith, 1785

E6c. Paterson's edition with another variant t.p., listing publishers in Glasgow, 1785

E7. A New edition with sketches of lives of the authors, 1794

E8. Undated Edinburgh edition, c.1800

Section F: Editions Published in Other (or Unknown) Locations

F1. Newcastle edition, printed by Matthew Brown, 1799

Section G: Location Unknown

G1. Possible pirated Tonson edition, 1765

G2. Possible pirated Tonson edition, 1766

Bibliography

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Manuscripts

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Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-254370-9

0-19-192428-8

0-19-254369-5

OCLC:

1263872828