Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

source: The Joseph Addison Page

online resources

• The Spectator Project: A hypermedia Research Archive of C18th periodicals

• The Latin Prose and Poetry of Joseph Addison, a hypertext edition by Dana F. Sutton

correspondence

• Graham, Walter (ed.). (1941). The Letters of Joseph Addison. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

language

• Ito, Hiroyuki (1980), The Language of the Spectator. A Lexical and Stylistic Approach. Tokyo: Shinozaki Shorin.
• Wright, Susan (1994), 'The critic and the grammarian: Joseph Addison and the prescriptivists', in Dieter Stein and Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (eds.), Towards a Standard English: 1600-1800. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter. 243-284.
• Wright, Susan (1997), 'Speaker innovation, textual revision and the case of Joseph Addison', in Terttu Nevalainen and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka (eds.), To Explain the Present. Studies in the changing English Language in honour of Matti Rissanen, Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 483-503.