For 10 points, name this publication written chiefly by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, whose near-silent narrator roams London observing the citizenry.
Slavoj Zizek argues that the constructs of "solidarity in guilt" and "participation in a common transgression" are modeled in this work's narrator's descriptions of public social violence, and Jurgen Habermas in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere wrote that the public "entered itself into literature as an object" through this work. This work describes the "Ugly Club," an exclusive men's organization that only admits extremely unattractive people. The first "number" of this publication includes its narrator's self-description as so taciturn that he was once mistaken for a Jesuit. Other characters in this publication and members of the narrator's namesake club include Sir Roger de Coverly and the foppish Will Honeycomb. The authors of this publication, which ran two to three issues per week between 1711 and 1712, also collaborated on a similar publication called The Tatler. For 10 points, name this publication written chiefly by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, whose near-silent narrator roams London observing the citizenry.
Slavoj Zizek argues that the constructs of "solidarity in guilt" and "participation in a common transgression" are modeled in this work's narrator's descriptions of public social violence, and Jurgen Habermas in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere wrote that the public "entered itself into literature as an object" through this work.
The {Spectator}