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Author:   Paul Davis (Professor of English, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.806kg
ISBN:  

9780198814030

ISBN 10:   0198814038
Pages:   436
Publication Date:   27 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Paul Davis: Introduction 2: David Hopkins: Addison as Translator 3: Brian Cowan: Mr Spectator and the Doctor: Joseph Addison and Henry Sacheverell 4: Paul Davis: Was Addison a Poet? 5: Henry Power: Coins and Circulation in Addison's Prose 6: Marcus Walsh: Addison as Critic and Critical Theorist 7: James Winn: 'More Sensual Delights': Visual Pleasure and Musical Anxiety in Joseph Addison's Aesthetics 8: Markman Ellis: Sociability and Polite Improvement in Addison's Periodicals 9: Fred Parker: Addison's Modesty: Or, The Essayist as Spectator 10: Hazel Wilkinson: The Complete Spectator: A Bibliographical History 11: David Francis Taylor: Cato and the Crisis of Rhetoric 12: Claire Boulard-Jouslin: Addison and France 13: Robert DeMaria Jr: Addison, Samuel Johnson, and the Test of Time 14: Frédéric Ogée: Nature and Imagination: The Posterity of Addison's 'Pleasures' in British Enlightenment Culture 15: Gregory Dart: Addison and the Romantics 16: Brian Young: Addison and the Victorians Hazel Wilkinson: Appendix: The Complete Spectator, 1712-1812: A Bibliographical Catalogue

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Effectively illustrated and including a full bibliography, this volume is a welcome addition to the literature. * E. D. Hill, Mount Holyoke College, CHOICE *

Author Information

Paul Davis is Professor of English at University College London, where he has taught since 1997. He is the author of Translation and the Poet's Life (Oxford University Press, 2008), and has edited Rochester: Selected Poems (Oxford University Press, 2013). He is general editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition of Addison's Non-Periodical Works in 5 volumes, and volume editor for the Poems and Translations.

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