JOSEPH ADDISON.

The article present a research guide on the life and works of author Joseph Addison. In Educating the Audience: Addison, Steele and Eighteenth-Century Culture, Edward A. Bloom and Lillian Bloom examine the role of the imagination and contemplation in the life and works of Addison and Steele. Edmund Leites, on the other hand, focuses on the ethics of Steele on issues of marriage and the civilities of social life. In Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance & Form in the Spectator Papers, Michael G. Ketcham attempts to explain why The Spectator was the most successful, polished and influential periodical of the eighteenth century.