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Dinner with Joseph Johnson : Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

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 dinin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hay, Daisy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Dinner with Joseph Johnson
  • Part One: Fire (1760-1770)
  • 1. Authentic Narrative
  • 2. Domestic Occurrences
  • 3. The Enquirer
  • 4. London
  • Part Two: Riot (1770-1780)
  • 5. Joineriana
  • 6. Freethinker
  • 7. Essays Medical and Experimental
  • 8. Paint and Washes
  • 9. The American War Lamented
  • 10. Thoughts on the Devotional Taste
  • Part Three: Revolt (1780-1789)
  • 11. The Task
  • 12. Trade Winds
  • 13. Thoughts on the Education of Daughters
  • 14. The Paper Age
  • 15. Aphorisms on Man
  • Part Four: Ruins (1789-1791)
  • 16. On Liberty
  • 17. Original Stories
  • 18. Views of the Ruins
  • Part Five: Refuge (1791-1795)
  • 19. Evenings at Home
  • Color Plates
  • 20. Things as They Are
  • 21. Things by their Right Names
  • Part Six: Cave (1792-1799)
  • 22. Paradise Lost
  • 23. Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • 24. Original Poetry
  • 25. A peep into the Cave of Jacobinism
  • 26. The King Versus Joseph Johnson
  • Part Seven: House (1799-1809)
  • 27. Idyllium. The Prison
  • 28. Essays on Professional Education
  • 29. Lycidas
  • 30. Beachy Head
  • Afterword
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Notes
  • Index