Dinner with Joseph Johnson (eBook)

Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

Daisy Hay (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
536 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24397-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 FranklinOnce 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color + 34 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • afterword • A Letter to a Friend • Andrew Millar • Anti-Jacobin • Antoine Lavoisier • Approbation • Beaufort Scale • Beer Street and Gin Lane • Benjamin Haydon • Chaplain • Christian Gotthilf Salzmann • Coaching inn • Consummation • Continuance • Correction (novel) • crustacean • dilapidation • dining room • Essay • Fireplace • Frances Burney • George Canning • gilbert imlay • G. (novel) • God • God Knows (novel) • good-night • grub street • Hack writer • Helen Maria Williams • Henry Crabb Robinson • Henry Fuseli • His Family • Horace Walpole • I Wish (manhwa) • Jacques Necker • James Boswell • James Gillray • Joey Johnson (Days of Our Lives) • John Boydell • John Horne Tooke • John Newbery • John Opie • Joseph Priestley • Joshua Toulmin • King's Bench Prison • kitchen garden • Lecture • lodging • Lycidas • Mail • Martin Madan • Mary Wollstonecraft • meal • Memoir • Molly house • My Country • of education • Olaudah Equiano • Olney Hymns • Pamphlet • Pantisocracy • Pasquale Paoli • Paternoster Row • phillis wheatley • Picaresque novel • Poetry • Prison ship • Publication • richard brinsley sheridan • Robert Southey • Royal Declaration of Indulgence • Royal Literary Fund • Samuel Rose • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Sarah Trimmer • Sponging-house • Superiority (short story) • Take Shelter • The Boarder • The Dining Room • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner • Thomas Holcroft • Thomas Robert Malthus • To Burke • To Godwin • To Pitt • Treaty of Amiens • Warrington Academy • William Frend (reformer) • William Garrow • William Godwin • William Hayley • William Hogarth • William Roscoe • William Whewell • William Wilberforce • William Withering • Writing table
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24397-2 / 0691243972
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24397-9 / 9780691243979