Name: Joseph Priestley and the rhetoric of dissent. Gunpowder Joe (en Inglés)
SKU: 67482601
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Author: Stephen Bygrave
ISBN: 9781807070151

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Joseph Priestley and the rhetoric of dissent. Gunpowder Joe (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Manchester University Press

Autor

Stephen Bygrave

Año

2027

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6 cm

ISBN13

9781807070151

Joseph Priestley and the rhetoric of dissent. Gunpowder Joe (en Inglés)

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This book examines the Birmingham riots of July 1791 as a pivotal rupture in Joseph Priestley’s intellectual and personal trajectory. It uses this moment to reassess Enlightenment culture through the pressures exerted on its ideals, tracing how external political violence and internal conceptual tensions shaped Priestley’s developing thought. The study situates his career across Britain and the early United States, analysing how his encounters with theology, science and political controversy informed his understanding of progress, dissent and global cultural exchange. Through its interdisciplinary approach, the book reframes Priestley’s significance within debates on Enlightenment and Romanticism. It offers a precise evaluation of the metaphors, discourses and conflicts that defined his late eighteenth-century world, providing an analytically grounded interpretation that supports contemporary research in intellectual history.

This study reassesses Joseph Priestley’s career by situating the 1791 Birmingham riots within wider Enlightenment debates, offering an interdisciplinary analysis of dissent, metaphor and intellectual culture across Britain and the early United States.