The Guardian / / edited, with an introduction and notes by John Calhoun Stephens

• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1982; ©1982
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (834 p.)
• Disciplina: 824/.5/08
• Soggetto topico: English essays - 18th century
• Persona (resp. second.): StephensJohn Calhoun <1916->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Beginnings of the Guardian; Publication and Distribution; Purpose and Dramatis Personae; Progress of the Guardian and Involvement in Politics; Addison's Editorship and Dennis's Attack on Cato; Politics, Dunkirk, and the Conclusion of the Guardian; Circulation of the Daily Sheets and Publication of Collected Editions; Authorship; Critical Opinion of the Guardian; THE TEXT; THE GUARDIAN; DEDICATIONS; THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER; APPENDIXES; I. TEXTUAL EMENDATIONS; II. TEXTUAL VARIANTS; III. SOURCES OF THE MOTTOES ; IV. ADVERTISEMENTS OF BOOKSV. THREE LETTERS BY JOHN HUGHES DESIGNED FOR THE Guardian; REFERENCE ABBREVIATIONS; NOTES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's head letterbox that Addis
• Titolo autorizzato: The guardian
• ISBN: 0-8131-5950-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813502603321
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