Jonathan Edwards and transatlantic print culture

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Jonathan Yeager provides a narrative of the publishing history of Jonathan Edwards's works in the 18th century, including the various printers, booksellers, and editors responsible for producing and disseminating his writings in America, Britain, and continental Europe. In doing so, he demonstrates how the printing, publishing, and editing of Edwards's works shaped society's understanding of him as an author and what the distribution of his works can tell us today about religious print culture in the 18th century Read more... Abstract: Jonathan Yeager provides a narrative of the publishing history of Jonathan Edwards's works in the 18th century, including the various printers, booksellers, and editors responsible for producing and disseminating his writings in America, Britain, and continental Europe. In doing so, he demonstrates how the printing, publishing, and editing of Edwards's works shaped society's understanding of him as an author and what the distribution of his works can tell us today about religious print culture in the 18th century