Claire Boulard Jouslin is senior lecturer in British history in Université Sor-bonne Nouvelle-Paris3. Her research interest include various aspects of the English eighteenth-century society such as landscape gardening, the history of the periodical press, women’s journalistic writings and Franco-British cultural transfers. Klaus-Dieter Ertler is Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Graz (Austria). His main research interests include the "Spectators" in the Romance cultures and the francophone and hispanophone novel.

• List of ContributorsIntroductionAvant-proposEurope’s influence on Addison’s writings/L’influence de l’Europe surl’écriture addisonienneAmélie JunquaA moment in Amsterdam—Joseph Addison and Jacob Tonson in 1703Endre SzécsényiThe Jesuit thread in Joseph Addison’s aestheticsDan PostonStill on classic ground: Joseph Addison’s ItalyPaul Davis"Misguided by the tuneful throng": Addison at the Rubicon Klaus-Dieter ErtlerAddison, lecteur de BayleAddison’s legacy to Europe/L’héritage addisonien en EuropeMaría José Rodríguez Sánchez de León"Varying life": The idea of fiction in the Spanish version of JosephAddison’s The Pleasures of the ImaginationKlara LeszczynskaHow Mr. Spectator became the father of the Polish essayCarmen García CelaLa Spectatrice (1728–1729): scenes de lecture ?Claire Boulard-JouslinJoseph Addison in Lausanne: Reading Addison’s works at the Societedu Comte de la Lippe