1st Edition
New Perspectives on The Spectator Form, Style and Contexts
By Laura Davies
Copyright 2027
216 Pages
by
Routledge
New Perspectives on The Spectator: Form, Style and Contexts offers a fresh approach to the much-referenced but rarely thoroughly read periodical The Spectator . Breaking free from the constraints of existing scholarly debates, which are dominated by issues of commercial and urban life and the emergence of the 'public sphere', this book brings to light previously unnoticed themes and... Read more
Introduction; 1. Blanks; 2. Secrets; 3. Dreams; 4. Death; 5. Excess; Bibliography
Biography
Laura Davies is a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK. She has published widely on eighteenth-century prose writers, including Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, and leads the interdisciplinary A Good Death? research and public impact project.
