Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… especially after the consolidation of Whig political hegemony 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 century. He is best known for his contributions to the periodical essays, The … vision of Whig politics. He focused less on opposition to the crown and a fear of the encroachment of Popish tyranny on English liberties that had been at the heart of late seventeenth-century Whiggery and much more so on promoting …
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