Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Joseph Addison and Henry Sacheverell’, in Paul Davis (ed.), Joseph Addison: Tercentenary Essays (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, forthcoming). Addison’s political affiliation remained with the Whig party throughout his life. His loyalty to the … of Whiggism’: New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press, 2005). 3 . Lawrence Klein, Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness: Moral Discourse and Cultural Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994). Addison promoted a vision of sociability that was urbane, polite, progressive and Whig. For these reasons, …
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