Richard Steele [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Sir Godfrey Kneller, ‘Sir Richard Steele’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3227, 1711. In one of his first publications, The Christian Hero (1701), he articulated his conviction that God had created man as a sociable animal: ‘We … and issue 155 condemned ‘an Indecent Licence taken in Discourse’ to young women. 16 The paper was read long after its publication because of this – indeed for the entire eighteenth century, during which it had over seventy editions. In … to see themselves as a new kind of community, based on reason and critical discussion, thereby helping to create public opinion. 18 Even so, Mr Spectator was, as his name suggests, also a semi-detached observer of society – at once both an …
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