Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… after the Hanoverian accession. People > Art and Literature People > Politics Mots-clés Literature Manners Periodicals Politeness Whigs Wit Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an important theorist of English sociability in the early eighteenth … Ashley Cooper the third Earl of Shaftesbury, Addison helped to develop the ideological foundations for a ‘culture of politeness’ that would achieve hegemony in the age of Whig oligarchy. 3 2 . Lawrence Klein, ‘Joseph Addison’s Whiggism’, … 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). …
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