The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectator (Bedford Cultural Editions) - Softcover

Addison, Joseph; Steele, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312115970 ISBN 13: 9780312115975

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

ERIN MACKIE, Washington University

Review:

'This is an excellent edition, which will enable students to engage fully with Addison and Steele's periodical projects, and with their cultural contexts. The material is all very well chosen and introduced.' - Shaun Regan, University of Nottingham

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312115970
• ISBN 13: 9780312115975
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 617
• Editor: Mackie Erin