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Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age Hay, Dai
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- ISBN
- 9780691243962
- Book Title
- Dinner with Joseph Johnson : Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
- Topic
- Modern / 18th Century, Publishing, Literary, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 536 Pages
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A fascinating portrait of a radical age through the writers associated with a London publisher and bookseller--from William Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecraft to Benjamin Franklin Once a week, in late eighteenth-century London, writers of contrasting politics and personalities gathered around a dining table. The veal and boiled vegetables may have been unappetising but the company was convivial and the conversation brilliant and unpredictable. The host was Joseph Johnson, publisher and bookseller: a man at the heart of literary life. In this book, Daisy Hay paints a remarkable portrait of a revolutionary age through the connected stories of the men and women who wrote it into being, and whose ideas still influence us today. Johnson's years as a publisher, 1760 to 1809, witnessed profound political, social, cultural and religious changes--from the American and French revolutions to birth of the Romantic age--and many of his dinner guests and authors were at the center of events. The shifting constellation of extraordinary people at Johnson's table included William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Benjamin Franklin, the scientist Joseph Priestly and the Swiss artist Henry Fuseli, as well as a group of extraordinary women--Mary Wollstonecraft, the novelist Maria Edgeworth, and the poet Anna Barbauld. These figures pioneered revolutions in science and medicine, proclaimed the rights of women and children and charted the evolution of Britain's relationship with America and Europe. As external forces conspired to silence their voices, Johnson made them heard by continuing to publish them, just as his table gave them refuge. A rich work of biography and cultural history, Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an entertaining and enlightening story of a group of people who left an indelible mark on the modern age.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691243964
ISBN-13
9780691243962
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057251263
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Book Title
Dinner with Joseph Johnson : Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Modern / 18th Century, Publishing, Literary, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Number of Pages
536 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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"As a bookseller, Johnson's lists ranged widely, covering topics such as cookery, gardening, education and theology alongside the bread-and-butter of politics and poetry. Hay's book follows Johnson's lead. The result is equal parts panoramic and kaleidoscopic, marching along some of the less-trod paths of the Romantic era." ---Joseph Hone, History Today, "Daisy Hay's new book is hugely engrossing, yet its hero, Joseph Johnson, is almost unknown today. . . . An exciting blend of ideas and personalities." ---John Carey, The Sunday Times, "[A] compelling and magnificent study. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is an admirable achievement of biography and humanistic imagination." ---Kathryn Sutherland, Times Literary Supplement, " Dinner with Joseph Johnson evokes the noise and excitement of an age characterized by the unceasing hum of literary debate. . . . A fitting reflection of the period that Hay describes: a time when the written word could make someone's name--or cost them their liberty." ---Francesca Peacock, Financial Times, "Enthralling and intricately researched. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is more than a richly detailed character profile: It also comprises a sharply realized group portrait of those whom Johnson wined, dined and gave voice to." ---Malcolm Forbes, Wall Street Journal, "Enthralling and intricately researched. . . . Dinner With Joseph Johnson is more than a richly detailed character profile: It also comprises a sharply realized group portrait of those whom Johnson wined, dined and gave voice to." ---Malcolm Forbes, Wall Street Journal, [An] illuminating account. . . . Hay's is a fascinating take on the intellectual and political development of the time. Fans of literary history will relish this opportunity to pull up a seat at Johnson's table., "Hugely Engrossing. . . . an Exciting Blend of Ideas and Personalities." ---John Carey, Sunday Times, "Hay makes the most of a vivid period in English and especially London history. Her carefully poised study puts Johnson, today an obscure figure, back at the center of his circle." ---Rosemary Hill, London Review of Books, "Hay's meticulously researched biography, rich in period and personal detail, sheds light on both Johnson the man and the vibrant cultural world he inhabited." ---Hannah Beckerman, The Guardian, "Hay has produced an enlightening biography. Her detailed portrait of Johnson illuminates the considerable risks faced by a London publisher bold enough to defy the repressive laws issued by the nervous British government at a time when revolution seemed worryingly likely to spread from France to England." ---Miranda Seymour, New York Review of Books, "Enthralling. . . . Dinner with Joseph Johnson is more than a richly detailed character profile: It also comprises a sharply realized group portrait of those whom Johnson wined, dined and gave voice to." ---Malcolm Forbes, Wall Street Journal, " Dinner with Joseph Johnson is a beautifully packaged, skillfully written and detailed book that finally gives this gentle revolutionary the recognition he deserves." ---Jacqueline Riding, Country Life, "Daisy Hay's new book is hugely engrossing, yet its hero, Joseph Johnson, is almost unknown today. . . . An exciting blend of ideas and personalities." ---John Carey, Sunday Times, " Dinner with Joseph Johnson is a portrait of literary ferment. . . . [It] reminds us of the excitement of a period in which inherited orthodoxies were forensically scrutinised and found lacking. And it offers us pause for thought." ---Matthew Dennison, The Telegraph
Copyright Date
2022
Dewey Decimal
828.609
Dewey Edition
23
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