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ISBN 10: 0271024593
ISBN 13: 9780271024592
Author: Robert E Schofield
In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come.
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
1. Beginnings and Childhood
2. Growing Up
3. The Swan Arcadian
4. Into Print
5. Into the Inferno
6. Flowers From Dead Men
7. Brief Diversions
8. Dark Hours
9. Jane
10. Picking Up the Pieces
11. Mr Walpole and Dear Old Jack
12. Fame
13. ‘Oh she doth teach the torches to burn bright...’
14. Time and the Dramatist
15. An English Journey
16. Theatre, Hollywood and Arizona
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17. Aspects of Time
18. America Again
19. The Dogs of War
20. Postscripts
21. Through the War
22. Post-War
23. Jacquetta
24. The Tangled Web
25. Endings
26. Journey Down a Rainbow
27. Banning the Bomb
28. Into the Sixties
29. Order of Merit
30. A Dream of Birds
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Tags: Robert E Schofield, Enlightened, Joseph
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