The Spectator : emerging discourses

"This book brings together international scholars who take a fresh look at this influential eighteenth-century English periodical. Taking advantage of the insights provided by such critical perspectives as new historicism, postcolonialism, psychology, postmodernism and cultural studies, and by such theorists as Michel Foucault and Jurgen Habermas, the scholars represented herein offer new insights into The Spectator's relation to the changing society that influenced it - and that it in turn influenced."--Jacket Contents 7 Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 11 Originals, Copies, and the Iconography of Femninity in The Spectator 41 Putting the Child into Discourse: Framing Children in The Spectator 59 Being Too Positive About the Public Sphere 81 A Leviathan of Letters 105 "Accounts of Savage Nations’’: The Spectator and the Americas 129 Universalizing Sociability: The Spectator, Civic Enfranchisement, and the Rule(s) of the Public Sphere 150 Addison and the Personality of the Critic 175 Death and the Nation in The Spectator 200 "Epistolary Commerce’’ in The Spectator 220 The Virtue of Repetition: Mr. Spectator Trains Benjamin Franklin 248 The Spectator and Distance Education 265 Contributors 300 Index 303