Milton’s Mirth and Addison’s Humor
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This essay is designed to construct a legitimate connection between John Milton and Joseph Addison via the notion of humor. In the process, I argue that Addison with his daily journal plays a critical role in mediating the Miltonic world of literature to his polite and amicable audience in the age of transvaluation of the early eighteenth century. For this argument, I first point out the fact that Addison and Milton belong to the protestant Whiggish party, so that they share similar political ideology and principles. Second, while Milton tries to establish the fundamental conditions of early-modern humanity such as liberal conscience and free will, Addison stresses the significance of freedom in readership. Third, the idea of humor encapsulates the idea of critical and creative spectatorship in consuming literary art. This does not simply mean moral ethos or epistemological confidence in response to the text. In the end, the journalist and critic of the early-eighteenth century introduces Milton as the precursor of aesthetic relationality between the audience and the text.
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This essay is designed to construct a legitimate connection between John Milton and Joseph Addison via the notion of humor. In the process, I argue that Addison with his daily journal plays a critical role in mediating the Miltonic world of literature to his polite and amicable audience in the age of transvaluation of the early eighteenth century. For this argument, I first point out the fact that Addison and Milton belong to the protestant Whiggish party, so that they share similar political ideology and principles. Second, while Milton tries to establish the fundamental conditions of early-modern humanity such as liberal conscience and free will, Addison stresses the significance of freedom in readership. Third, the idea of humor encapsulates the idea of critical and creative spectatorship in consuming literary art. This does not simply mean moral ethos or epistemological confidence in response to the text. In the end, the journalist and critic of the early-eighteenth century introduces Milton as the precursor of aesthetic relationality between the audience and the text.
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