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Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… Abstract Joseph Addison was an important theorist of sociability best known for his essays published in The Tatler (1709-1711) and The … and his character was presented as exemplary of the polite manners that he sought to describe and defend in his works. Addison was also well known as a prominent Whig politician and his literary style exemplified Whig political ideals and … of Whig political hegemony after the Hanoverian accession. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Keywords Addison Whig Periodical essay Tatler Spectator Coffeehouse Literature Wit Politeness Manners Joseph Addison (1672-1719) …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Club Whig Patronage Friendship Addison Tonson The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) was one of the earliest and most influential London gentlemen’s dining … 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 …

Coffeehouses [ Institutions / Food & Drink venues ]

… sociable institution. Places > Institutions Places > Food & Drink venues Keywords Coffee Coffeehouse Public sphere Club Addison Johnson Boswell Habermas Macaulay Tavern Coffeehouses were key centres of sociability in eighteenth-century … 1180-1213. Coffeehouses were idealized by early eighteenth-century writers and theorists of sociability such as Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in their Tatler (1709-1711) and Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) periodicals. In The Spectator , Addison famously declared: ‘I shall be ambitious to have it said of me, that I have brought Philosophy out of Closets and …

Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]

… Practices > Communication Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Periodical Joseph Addison Richard Steele Eliza Haywood Female Tatler Ambrose Philips Spectator Free-Thinker Female Spectator Gendered … 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 …

Periodicals [ Print culture ]

… model, which can be seen as a virtual sociable space. Objects > Print culture Keywords Periodical Magazine News Volume Addison Steele Newspaper Coffeehouse Club Women Issue A ‘periodical’ or periodical publication is a text published at … 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 …

Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]

… 24 Aug. 1711. 3 . Spectator 97, 21 June 1711. Another feature of his life was his long-standing friendship with Joseph Addison, with whom he collaborated on the celebrated periodicals The Tatler (1709-10, with Steele as the major partner), The Spectator (1711-12) and The Guardian (1713). He and Addison were associated with Child’s Coffee House and were also members of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, which was both … may have been the price for Steele remaining as stamp commissioner when the Tories gained power in 1710), Steele and Addison established The Spectator , which was more ostensibly impartial (though it deliberately sought to moderate …