Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… that became extremely influential in the eighteenth century and afterwards. His prose style was often emulated by later periodical essayists and his character was presented as exemplary of the polite manners that he sought to describe and … hegemony after the Hanoverian accession. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Keywords Literature Manners Periodicals Politeness Whigs Wit Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an important theorist of English sociability in the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his contributions to the periodical essays, The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714), and The Guardian (1713), although Addison was …
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