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… works, which included some of the essays of  The   Spectator  and  Guardian. 7 7 . Claire Boulard Jouslin, ‘Joseph Addison in Lausanne: Reading Addison’s works at the Société du Comte de la Lippe,’ in Claire Boulard Jouslin and Klaus-Dieter Ertler (ed.), Addison and Europe (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2020), pp. 163-177. Many of the most famous early leisure essay periodicals …

… a contemporaneous club called The Toasters, the two clubs joint funding at least one theatre production in January 1700. Addison described the Kit-Cat as a club ‘founded upon Eating and Drinking’, 2  many members were corpulent, and its … Meanwhile, through Tonson’s scholarly editions of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, the Spectator essays of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, they bolstered the … offering advancement. This applied too to Dr Samuel Garth (1661-1719), who knew Stepney at Cambridge, and to Joseph Addison and Richard Steele (1672-1729), whose friendship began at Charterhouse school and who joined the Club c.1704-5. 7 …

… Image ‘Title pages of the ca. 1788 edition of the first volume of the collected edition of Addison and Steele’s The Spectator’, Wikimedia Commons, circa 1788. Abstract Periodicals or periodical publications play … soon resumed by various periodicals, notably those relating to the vogue of the Spectators, of which The Spectator of Addison and Steele remains one of the models of the genre. 4  The first periodical of this type was The Tatler (April … issues reprinted in volume at the end of each quarter. To develop his project, Steele launched, with the help of Addison, a daily periodical, The Spectator (1711-1714), which quickly became a success throughout Europe. Some issues …

… Further Reading Axelsson, Karl, Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society.  (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord … incomplete without an understanding of his extended treatment of the term. … Axelsson, Karl, Political Aesthetics: Addison and Shaftesbury on Taste, Morals and Society.  (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). Barton, Roman Alexander,'Lord …

… philosophical reflections on the event of the tea-table. Amongst the most sophisticated expressions of this was Joseph Addison ’s in The Spectator . Addison suggested that the purpose of his new periodical was to urbanise moral philosophy: ‘to bring Philosophy out of … Schools and Colleges, to dwell in Clubs and Assemblies, at Tea-tables, and in Coffee-houses’. 4  In this list, Addison identified the tea-table as the equal, and most innovative, of the other significant institutions that …