Introduction / Donald J. Newman
Originals, copies, and the iconography of femininity in The spectator / Juliette Merritt
Putting the child into discourse : framing children in The spectator / Anja Müller
Being too positive about the public square / Erin Skye Mackie
A leviathan of letters / Greg Polly
"Accounts of savage nations" : The spectator and the Americas / Brycchan Carey
Universalizing sociability : The spectator, civic enfranchisement, and the rule(s) of the public square / Terence Bowers
Addison and the personality of the critic / Paul Trolander and Zeynep Tenger
Death and the nation in The spectator / Peter Walmsley
"Epistolary commerce" in The spectator / Eve Tavor Bannet
The virtue of repetition : Mr. Spectator trains Benjamin Franklin / Brian McCrea
The spectator and distance education / George Justice.