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- catalog abstract ""Joseph Johnson (1738-1809) was arguably the foremost bookseller of the late eighteenth century in England, publishing influential authors such as Joseph Priestley, William Cowper, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Erasmus Darwin, and his output is closely linked to the turbulent events of his age. The role he played is vital to our understanding of the wider social, literary and intellectual cross-currents in the Romantic period, and the complex relationship between politics and print. Though commonly associated with 'freethinkers', religious dissenters and 'radical'-minded reformers, an impartial survey of Johnson's output shows him to have been receptive to a broad range of opinions, sympathetic to reform but keen not to be shackled to any particular party and above all, fiercely independent. This wide-ranging contextual study re-assesses the reputation of a man unfairly condemned in his own time as a dangerously 'radical' publisher and considers how far the works he published promoted the case for religious and political change."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12715390.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820.".
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Joseph Johnson (1738-1809) was arguably the foremost bookseller of the late eighteenth century in England, publishing influential authors such as Joseph Priestley, William Cowper, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Erasmus Darwin, and his output is closely linked to the turbulent events of his age. The role he played is vital to our understanding of the wider social, literary and intellectual cross-currents in the Romantic period, and the complex relationship between politics and print. Though commonly associated with 'freethinkers', religious dissenters and 'radical'-minded reformers, an impartial survey of Johnson's output shows him to have been receptive to a broad range of opinions, sympathetic to reform but keen not to be shackled to any particular party and above all, fiercely independent. This wide-ranging contextual study re-assesses the reputation of a man unfairly condemned in his own time as a dangerously 'radical' publisher and considers how far the works he published promoted the case for religious and political change."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Dissenting Origins -- Striving for Independence -- A Friend to Reformation -- Responses to Revolution -- The War of Opinion -- 'Honest Joe'".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 243 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0333983947".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Politics and government 1760-1820.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "070.5/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Booksellers and bookselling Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809.".
- catalog subject "Publishers and publishing Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Z325.J72 B73 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Dissenting Origins -- Striving for Independence -- A Friend to Reformation -- Responses to Revolution -- The War of Opinion -- 'Honest Joe'".
- catalog title "Romanticism, publishing, and dissent : Joseph Johnson and the cause of literty / Helen Braithwaite.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".