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- Title
The Afterlife and The Spectator.
- Authors
JOST, JACOB SIDER
- Abstract
The article discusses the periodical "The Spectator," founded by writers Joseph Addison and Richard Steele. Particular focus is given to concepts of immortality and the afterlife in the periodical. According to the author, it was designed both as a program of moral improvement and reform for readers and as a way of immortalizing its writers and creators. Details on references to the periodical by later writers such as Benjamin Franklin, James Boswell, Jane Austen, and William Makepeace Thackeray are presented. Other topics include time, self-culture, secularism, and 18th-century concepts of heaven.
- Subjects
SPECTATOR, The (Periodical : 1711-1712); IMMORTALITY of the soul in literature; STEELE, Richard, Sir, 1672-1729; ADDISON, Joseph, 1672-1719; AFTERLIFE -- History of doctrines; AUTODIDACTICISM; SECULARISM; HEAVEN &; Christianity
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2011, Vol 51, Issue 3, p605
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2011.0024