304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Richard Steele is famous as an early writer of sentimental drama and as half of the writing team, Addison and Steele. He is notable both for the indirect propaganda he developed with Addison and for the open partisanship of his own periodicals. He wrote extensively about responsible economics but was famously irresponsible in his own affairs.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Preparing for Politics; Chapter 2 Creating Whig Culture: The Gazette and the Tatler; Chapter 3 The Spectator’s Politics of Indirection; Chapter 4 The Guardian, Parliament and Dunkirk; Chapter 5 The Crisis and the Succession; Chapter 6 The Politics of the Theatre; Chapter 7 The Final Decade (1715–24);
Biography
Charles A. Knight