The Commerce of Everyday Life : Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator
Addison, Joseph, Steele, Richard
ISBN 10: 0312115970 ISBN 13: 9780312115975
Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1998
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This volume offers a selection of essays from The Tatler and The Spectator (1709-1714). The accompanying texts include excerpts from other periodicals such as The Guardian, The London Spy, and The Female Tatler; advertisements; and selections by Defoe, Ward, Flecknoe, Gay, Mandville, Pope, and Swift. A general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronolgy of Addison's and Steele's lives and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a selected bibliography, and illustrations make this volume a unique scholarly edition of the periodical papers that helped define eighteenth-century culture and standards.
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Title: The Commerce of Everyday Life : Selections ...
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Limited
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good