Joseph Addison [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… prose style was often emulated by later periodical essayists 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 … 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 … had been at the heart of late seventeenth-century Whiggery and much more so on promoting moderation, trade, and sociable manners unmarred by the religious divisions that had spurred the development of the party in the age of Charles II and …
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