... the theory of exemplarity as it relates to dramatic characters was translated (and continues to resonate) to the domain of the economic. The chapter focuses primarily on works by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, and Eliza Haywood, each of which is marked by its relationship to the issues of property...

... Hautchamp Barthélemy Jouhaud Christian Spanish America South Sea Company Academie des sciences Nouveau Mercure Daniel Defoe Joseph Addison Comtesse de Verrue Jean Terrasson Antoine Houdar de la Motte Jean-François Melon Since the end of the seventeenth century, several ideas had metamorphosed...

...This chapter considers the climactic scene of self-killing in Joseph Addison’s “Cato, a Tragedy” as both a cumulative restatement of long prior traditions of suicidal representation under analysis in this book, and as a decisive historical marker of a shift in aesthetic values away from the playful...