This volume offers a selection of essays from The Tatler and The Spectator (1709-1714). The accompanying texts include excerpts from other periodicals such as The Guardian, The London Spy, and The Female Tatler; advertisements; and selections by Defoe, Ward, Flecknoe, Gay, Mandville, Pope, and Swift. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronolgy of Addison's and Steele's lives and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of the periodical papers that helped define eighteenth-century culture and standards.
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'This is an excellent edition, which will enable students to engage fully with Addison and Steele's periodical projects, and with their cultural contexts. The material is all very well chosen and introduced.' - Shaun Regan, University of Nottingham
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The selections from The Tatler and The Spectator included here focus on their place in the booming market of periodical publications. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simplex munditiis, publick credit, commercial imperialism, pretty fellow, false wit, periodical papers, bourgeois public sphere Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Female Tatler, Royal Exchange, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, War of the Spanish Succession, King Charles, Covent Garden, Coopers Hill, Drury Lane, Isaac Bickerstaff, Alexander the Great, Cultural Contexts, Edward Ward, Fleet Street, Great Britain, Ars Poetica, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Society, The London Spy, Civil Wars, James's Park, John Dryden, Men of Wit, New Exchange, Man of Sense New!
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The selections from The Tatler and The Spectator included here focus on their place in the booming market of periodical publications. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
simplex munditiis, publick credit, commercial imperialism, pretty fellow, false wit, periodical papers, bourgeois public sphere Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Female Tatler, Royal Exchange, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, War of the Spanish Succession, King Charles, Covent Garden, Coopers Hill, Drury Lane, Isaac Bickerstaff, Alexander the Great, Cultural Contexts, Edward Ward, Fleet Street, Great Britain, Ars Poetica, Queen Elizabeth, Royal Society, The London Spy, Civil Wars, James's Park, John Dryden, Men of Wit, New Exchange, Man of Sense New!
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