Description
Book Synopsis In 1719, the former secretary of State and famous English writer Joseph Addison passed away and was burried in Westminster Abbey among the great national poets. A few decades later, the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson defined Joseph Addison’s prose style as the quintessence of Englishness in his Lives of the English Poets. This selection of essays ambitions to celebrate the tercentenary of his death by showing that Addison was part of the European as much as the English Enlightenment. It explores how European countries and cultures played a decisive, if somewhat ambiguous role in his career and writing. It finally offers insights of Addison’s huge literary and journalistic legacy in Europe.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
Introduction
Avant-propos
Europe’s influence on Addison’s writings/L’influence de l’Europe sur
l’écriture addisonienne
Amélie Junqua
A moment in Amsterdam—Joseph Addison and Jacob Tonson in 1703
Endre Szécsényi
The Jesuit thread in Joseph Addison’s aesthetics
Dan Poston
Still on classic ground: Joseph Addison’s Italy
Paul Davis
"Misguided by the tuneful throng": Addison at the Rubicon
Klaus-Dieter Ertler
Addison, lecteur de Bayle
Addison’s legacy to Europe/L’héritage addisonien en Europe
María José Rodríguez Sánchez de León
"Varying life": The idea of fiction in the Spanish version of Joseph
Addison’s The Pleasures of the Imagination
Klara Leszczynska
How Mr. Spectator became the father of the Polish essay
Carmen García Cela
La Spectatrice (1728–1729): scenes de lecture ?
Claire Boulard-Jouslin
Joseph Addison in Lausanne: Reading Addison’s works at the Societe
du Comte de la Lippe
