Overview
The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is the first scholarly edition of the correspondence of the influential publisher Joseph Johnson (1738-1809). Best known today for his work with politically progressive figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Joseph Priestley, over the course of his career Johnson was involved in the publication of thousands of works on a breathtaking range of subjects, from travel narratives to scientific writing to children's books. Johnson was also something of an impresario, and given his active involvement in shaping the books he published, he appears in the longue duree of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British print culture as a gateway figure in the slow transition from patronage to marketplace. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook brings into print for the first time over two hundred of Johnson's letters from archives around the world.
Full Product Details
Author: John Bugg (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Fordham University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.440kg
ISBN: 9780199644247
ISBN 10: 0199644241
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 28 January 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Meticulously edited and annotated for publication by John Bugg. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is a slim, beautifully produced volume, and a treasure trove for scholars of Romanticism and book history. Daisy Hay, The Times Literary Supplement This outstanding edition of Johnson's surviving correspondence is of first-rate service to our understanding of this critical figure James R. Raven, Review of English Studies John Bugg's new edition, The Joseph Johnson Letterbook, provides the fullest collection of Johnson's correspondence to date. James M. Morris, BARS Review
Meticulously edited and annotated for publication by John Bugg. The Joseph Johnson Letterbook is a slim, beautifully produced volume, and a treasure trove for scholars of Romanticism and book history. Daisy Hay, The Times Literary Supplement
Author Information
John Bugg is author of Five Long Winters: The Trials of British Romanticism (Stanford University Press, 2014), which examines the relations between literary culture and political repression at the end of the eighteenth century. His essays and reviews have appeared in PMLA, ELH, Eighteenth-Century Studies, TLS, Romanticism, The Huntington Library Quarterly, European Romantic Review, and Keats-Shelley Journal. He is co-founder, with Sarah Zimmerman, of the New York City Romanticism Group.
