Addison and Europe / Addison et l'Europe

ISBN-13: 9783631813591 / Francuski / Twarda / 2020 / 180 str.

Claire Boulard;Klaus-Dieter Ertler

Opis

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.

Spis treści

List 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

O autorze

Claire Boulard Jouslin is senior lecturer in British history in Université Sor-bonne Nouvelle-Paris3. Her research interest include various aspects of the English eighteenth-century society such as landscape gardening, the history of the periodical press, women's journalistic writings and Franco-British cultural transfers.

Klaus-Dieter Ertler is Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Graz (Austria). His main research interests include the "Spectators" in the Romance cultures and the francophone and hispanophone novel.