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- Title
Recontextualizing Richard Steele: Bishop Hoadly and Reformist Whiggery.
- Authors
Marshall, Ashley
- Abstract
Richard Steele's modern reputation is based almost entirely upon his collaboration with Joseph Addison on The Tatler and The Spectator. The "Steele" in whom most scholars are interested is one-half of Addison-and-Steele, and his place in the history of ideas depends on these periodical contributions, as well as on his sentimental drama The Conscious Lovers. But Steele belongs in other (religio-political) contexts. This essay focuses on his connection to the controversial bishop Benjamin Hoadly, though this also means putting him in conversation with radical Whigs such as John Toland and Matthew Tindal. Ashley Marshall's underlying argument is that we can appreciate an important dimension of Steele's Whiggery if and only if we restore him to the religio-political contexts in which Hoadly was also operating.
- Subjects
STEELE, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729; ADDISON, Joseph, 1672-1719; SPECTATOR, The (Periodical : 1711-1712); TATLER (Periodical); HOADLY, Benjamin, 1676-1761
- Publication
Huntington Library Quarterly, 2019, Vol 82, Issue 3, p351
- ISSN
0018-7895
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hlq.2019.0019