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04260aam a2200397 i 4500 001 802DB666DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 220504s2022 njuaf b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 0691243964 020 $a 9780691243962 035 $a (OCoLC)1313904671 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d TOH $d AZH $d HRF $d ZLM $d YDX $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a Z325.J72 $b H297 2022 082 04 $a 070.52 $2 23 100 1 $a Hay, Daisy, $d 1981- $e author. 245 10 $a Dinner with Joseph Johnson : $b books and friendship in a revolutionary age / $c Daisy Hay. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 518 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 505 0 $a Introduction: Dinner with Joseph Johnson -- Fire (1760-1770). Authentic narrative -- Domestic occurrences -- The Enquirer -- London -- Riot (1770-1780). Joineriana -- Freethinker -- Essays medical and experimental -- Paint and washes -- The American War lamented -- Thoughts on the devotional taste -- Revolt (1780-1789). The task -- Trade winds -- Thoughts on the education of daughters -- The Paper Age -- Aphorisms on man -- Ruins (1789-1791). On liberty -- Original stories -- Views of the ruins -- Refuge (1791-1795). Evenings at home -- Things as they are -- Things by their right names -- Cave (1792-1799). Paradise Lost -- Vindication of the rights of woman -- Original poetry -- A peep into the cave of Jacobinism -- The King versus Joseph Johnson -- House (1799-1809). Idyllium. The Prison -- Essays on professional education -- Lycidas -- Beachy Head. 520 $a 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. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-452) and index. 600 10 $a Johnson, Joseph, $d 1738-1809. 650 0 $a Books and reading $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Books and reading $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Booksellers and bookselling $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a Authors and publishers $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Books and reading $z Great Britain. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century. $2 bisacsh 655 7 $a Creative nonfiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032659.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=802DB666DDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search