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The Pleasures of Spectatorship: Joseph Addison and Public Culture

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This dissertation focuses on the contribution of Joseph Addison and his London newspaper The Spectator to the modern "social imaginaries" (Charles Taylor) of public, market and nation. Addison's championing of perspicacity in prose and detachment in aesthetic judgment created protocols of "stranger sociality" (Michael Warner) that made participation in these...

Keyword:

social imaginaries, Joseph Addison, public sphere, spectatorship, history of rhetoric, and British public address

Subject:

Communication Studies

Creator:

Jon Leon Torn

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

09/06/2018

Date Modified:

09/06/2018

Date Created:

2008-04-29

Resource Type:

Dissertation