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Loading... The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (Bedford Cultural Editions) (edition 1998)by Joseph Addison (Author), Erin Mackie (Editor)
Work InformationThe Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Bedford Cultural Editions) by Joseph Addison
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Presents generous selections from the Tatler and Spectator, with real context, social and literary, in which to view them. The introductory essays for each of the several sections are extremely helpful, to novices like me, and I appreciate the inclusion of pertinent contemporary and near-contemporary writing at the end of each. Together, they provide an excellent framework for understanding the full significance of the papers - not just enjoying them, which is easy. The emphasis on the role of 'commerce' of all kinds is, naturally, rather heavy. ( ) no reviews | add a review
This volume offers a selection of essays from The Tatler and The Spectator (1709-1714), together with documents that have been carefully chosen to put these periodical papers into the social and historical contexts of Joseph Addison's and Richard Steele's eighteenth century. Including excerpts from other periodicals such as The Guardian, The London Spy, and The Female Tatler, advertisements from The Tatler and The Spectator, and selections by Defoe, Ward, Flecknoe, Gay, Mandeville, Pope, and Swift, the documents focus special attention on the market of public opinion, commerce and finance, fashioning taste, and fashioning gender. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)824.508Literature English & Old English literatures English essays Queen Anne 1702–45LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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