Addison as Translator

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-39
Author(s):  
David Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
College Life ◽  
Joseph Addison ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

Joseph Addison and Henry Sacheverell were almost exact contemporaries. Born within two years of one another, both men attended Magdalen College, Oxford, in their youth, and they both took up their studies at the college in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. From this moment onward, the lives and public careers of Addison and Sacheverell would be curiously intertwined. Scholarship and college life would bring them together as friends, but politics and public fame would pull them apart. A contrast between the agreeable Addison and the distasteful Sacheverell is commonplace in eighteenth-century studies, and not without reason. As perhaps the chief proponent of a new culture of ‘politeness’ for post-revolutionary Britain, Addison is well known for his friendliness, if not perhaps for his volubility, in company. Addison’s powerful reputation as the patron saint of eighteenth-century politeness did not sit well with his ties to Sacheverell, whose firebrand reputation was deeply controversial in his lifetime and only declined further as time went by. For this reason, the youthful friendship of the two Magdalen scholars has been a source of awkwardness for later commentators. This chapter places the friendship between Addison and Sacheverell within the context of post-revolutionary political and literary culture

Mr Spectator and the Doctor

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Brian Cowan
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
College Life ◽  
Joseph Addison ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

Joseph Addison and Henry Sacheverell were almost exact contemporaries. Born within two years of one another, both men attended Magdalen College, Oxford in their youth, and they both took up their studies at the college in the wake of the Glorious Revolution. From this moment onward, the lives and public careers of Addison and Sacheverell would be curiously intertwined. Scholarship and college life would bring them together as friends, but politics and public fame would pull them apart. A contrast between the agreeable Addison and the distasteful Sacheverell is commonplace in eighteenth-century studies, and not without reason. As perhaps the chief proponent of a new culture of ‘politeness’ for post-revolutionary Britain, Addison is well known for his friendliness, if not perhaps for his volubility, in company. Addison’s powerful reputation as the patron saint of eighteenth-century politeness did not sit well with his ties to Sacheverell, whose firebrand reputation was deeply controversial in his lifetime and only declined further as time went by. For this reason, the youthful friendship of the two Magdalen scholars has been a source of awkwardness for later commentators. This chapter places the friendship between Addison and Sacheverell within the context of post-revolutionary political and literary culture.

Chapter Eight The Evolution and Dissemination of Historical Knowledge

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
English History ◽  
Norman Conquest ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

This chapter discusses the nature and development of historical knowledge and understanding in Victorian Britain. It describes the pervasive tendencies within the period as a whole with respect to what needed to be taught and learned. Historians preserved an eighteenth-century tradition throughout the 1820s — the parliamentary history and Catholic vision of English history from the Romans to the Glorious Revolution. Narratives concentrated on the Norman conquest, Magna Carta, the reign of Henry VII, the seventeenth-century constitution, the English Civil War and the apotheosis of whiggery in the eighteenth century. Later versions faltered in face of the need to demonstrate deeper knowledge of events and a denser narrative texture. Thereafter, histories of England, written in the grand manner and across many centuries, petered out until after the turn of the century, and prompted treatments of more modern periods.

God & the Gothic

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Milbank
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Ghost Story ◽  
Material World ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

God and the Gothic undertakes a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries, now seen as usurpation of power by the authorities. A double gesture of repudiation and regret is evident in the consequent search for political, aesthetic, and religious mediation, which characterizes the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution and Whig Providential discourse. Part I interprets eighteenth-century Gothic novels in terms of this Whig debate about the true heir, culminating in Ann Radcliffe’s melancholic theology which uses distance and loss to enable a new mediation. Part II traces the origins of the doppelgänger in Calvinist anthropology and establishes that its employment by a range of Scottish writers offers a productive mode of subjectivity, necessary in a culture equally concerned with historical continuity. In Part III, Irish Gothic is shown to be seeking ways to mediate between Catholic and Protestant identities through models of sacrifice and ecumenism, while in Part IV, nineteenth-century Gothic is read as increasingly theological, responding to materialism by a project of re-enchantment. Ghost-story writers assert the metaphysical priority of the supernatural to establish the material world. Arthur Machen and other Order of the Golden Dawn members explore the double and other Gothic tropes as modes of mystical ascent, while raising the physical to the spiritual through magical control, and the M. R. James circle restores the sacramental and psychical efficacy of objects.

scholarly journals THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND AND THE PROBLEM OF THE NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEM MODERNIZATION IN THE “LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY”

Manuscript ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Leonid Vladimirovich Sidorenko ◽  
◽  
Nina Eduardovna Adamova ◽  
Yuliya Igorevna Kuznetsova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

scholarly journals The Hurry and Uproar of Their Passions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The Political ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

The period between the Glorious Revolution and the end of Queen Anne’s reign was a time of fierce antagonism between the political parties. This rivalry defined the political situation in early eighteenth century Britain and laid the foundation for the development of the ministerial machine of propaganda aimed at discrediting opponents and justifying the policies of the government. Methodically developed, the system was well applied during Oxford’s Ministry (1710-14). The establishment of a ministerial newspaper –The Examiner –played a significant role in solidifying public opinion behind the transfer of power to the Tories. Remaining a ‘right-wing’ organ, it became a sharp edge of anti-whig propaganda. The main objective of this article is to analyse the rhetoric of passions, one of the literary tools used inThe Examinerto build up a negative image of Whigs. This image, created on the pages ofThe Examiner, represents an element of a wider vision depicting passionate Whigs and reasonable Tories.

The Proposal in the Pre-Revolutionary Decade for Establishing Anglican Bishops in the Colonies

1962 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack M. Sosin
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Religious Toleration ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
The South ◽  
Anglican Church ◽  
Mother Country ◽  
The Glorious Revolution

Time supposedly heals all wounds, but the religious strife between Puritans and Anglicans in the seventeenth century had left a bitter legacy in the minds of the New England Congregationalist ministers. Even after the Glorious Revolution of 1688–9 had in time brought the principle of religious toleration for the protestant sects in the mother country, the animosities of the Stuart regime still evoked suspicion and distrust in the minds of those in New England whose ancestors had left England to found their Zion in the wilderness. But many years had passed since the days of archbishop William Laud, the Clarendon code and the policy of conformity. Although Anglicanism was dominant in England, by the middle of the eighteenth century it was tempered by the principle of toleration for dissenting protestants. But in New England those professing the Anglican faith were a minority among the Congregationalist offspring of the founding puritan fathers. Even in those provinces to the south where it represented the majority of the colonists the Anglican Church suffered from one great defect. There were no resident bishops in America; consequently, those colonists who wished to be ordained as ministers must make the long, expensive, and often hazardous journey to England. Few could undertake such a trip so that most of the Anglican clergy in the colonies came from the mother country.

War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hone
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Joseph Addison ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Nahum Tate

Chapter 4 investigates how the War of the Spanish Succession was reconfigured as a War of the British Succession. During the early modern period, warfare provided a stimulus to imaginative writing. At the start of the eighteenth century, Britain’s new status as a military superpower profoundly affected literary culture. By examining a range of official, popular, and diplomatic responses of military victories, including poems by Joseph Addison, Nahum Tate, and Daniel Defoe, this chapter illuminates local partisan meanings in texts reacting to the war and succession crisis. Moving through popular news, court propaganda, panegyrics, and satires, it establishes how the war became a lens through which to view dynastic crisis.

The Rite of Confirmation in Anglican Thought during the Eighteenth Century

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-372
Author(s):  
Robert Cornwall
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Thomas Wilson ◽  
The Times ◽  
William Iii ◽  
The Glorious Revolution ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Church ◽  
Church Tradition

S. L. Ollard's 1926 study of the Church of England's understanding and practice of the rite of confirmation remains the most significant examination of this topic for the eighteenth century. He insisted that eighteenth-century Anglicans took a low view of the rite, contending that the religious consequences of the Glorious Revolution set the tone for Anglican sacramental views. That the church allowed three unconfirmed monarchs (William III and the first two Georges) to receive the Eucharist provided evidence of the neglect of this rite. Louis Weil more recently echoes Ollard's critique, suggesting that after 1660 Anglican writers “virtually ignored the rite.” Weil believes that interest in the rite was limited to Thomas Wilson, the eighteenth-century bishop of Sodor and Man, and a few like-minded members of the “old high church tradition.” Thus, according to most accounts, Anglicans gave little attention to confirmation until the nineteenth century, when the Tractarians supposedly rediscovered the importance of the rite. Ironically, Weil undermines his own position by pointing out that the only “concentrated material” on the rite in the Tracts for the Times was a reprinting of the work on confirmation by the eighteenth-century bishop of Sodor and Mann, Thomas Wilson.

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