Political Biography of Richard Steele

Informationen zum Autor Charles A. Knight Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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);

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Charles A Knight, Charles A. Knight
• Verlag: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.01.2010
• EAN: 9781851969135
• ISBN: 978-1-85196-913-5
• Serie: Eighteenth-Century Political Biographies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Regional- und Ländergeschichte; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, European History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Europe / General, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Biography: writers, Biography: historical, political and military, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599