The Tatler: The Making of a Literary Journal

Richmond P. Bond

Published by Harvard University Press 1971

The Tatler

The Making of a Literary Journal

Richmond P. Bond

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674733350

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In the only full-length study of the first great literary periodical in England, Richmond Bond draws upon a detailed knowledge of the history of The Tatler and a wide-ranging familiarity with the milieu of Augustan England. The journal's humanistic content and its design of promoting high morals, manners, and taste are related to such recurrent themes as reasoned benevolence and devotion to the "middle Way." Most important, Bond discusses the literary style of Isaac Bickerstaff, Steele's eidolon, and explores The Tatler’s contribution to the development of a variety of essay forms. Illustrations relating to specific issues of The Tatler are included.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
I. The Men behind the Mask That we Writers of Essays may talk of our selves No. 83 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. The Business of Publication Discourses of Wit by Retale, and for the Penny No. 62 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
III. Current Affairs I shall not pretend to raise a Credit to this Work, upon the Weight of my Politick News only No. 4 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
IV. The Social Substance we have no Design but to produce unknown Merit, or place in a proper Light the Actions of our Contemporaries, who labour to distinguish themselves, whether by Vice or Virtue No. 50 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
V. Arts and Science Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body No. 147 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
VI. The Formal Structure But however I have rambled in this Libertine Manner of Writing by Way of Essay No. 112 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
VII. The Words and Ways of Bickerstaff by the Variety of the Matter and Style No. 4 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
VIII. The End of the Tatler I am now come to the End of my Ambition in this Matter No. 271 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
IX. The Table of Fame it struck me with a secret Concern, to reflect, that whenever I go o f f , I shall leave no Traces behind me No. 95 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
X. Perspective I shall . . . take a middle Way No. 76 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Appendices. Notes. Bibliographic. Note. Index
Appendix A. A Matter in Controversy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Appendix Β. News in the Tatler, Gazette, and Courant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Appendix C. The Murder of Mrs. Eustace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Appendix D. Frozen Words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliographic Note Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1971
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 8
- Other: 9 halftones
Keywords: Tatler (London, England : 1709)

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ISBN: 9780674733343