The Spectator, Aesthetic Experience and the Modern Idea of Happiness
Focusing on Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s Spectator papers, this essay links modern ideas of happiness to the emergence of aesthetic theory in early eighteenth-century Britain. It argues that Addison and his contemporaries understood aesthetics foremost as a means of enriching life through...
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| Language: | English |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
2015-06-01
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| Series: | English Literature |
| Online Access: | http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/english-literature/2015/1/the-spectator-aesthetic-experience-and-the-modern-/ |