By Jonathan M. Yeager
Jonathan Yeager offers a story of the publishing heritage of Jonathan Edwards's works within the 18th century, together with a few of the printers, booksellers, and editors chargeable for generating and disseminating his writings in the USA, Britain, and continental Europe. In doing so, he demonstrates how the printing, publishing, and enhancing of Edwards's works formed society's realizing of him as an writer and Read more...
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79 These comments affirm the reality that in the eighteenth century controversial books had the potential of creating a buzz that might lead to higher sales. By now it should be apparent that analyzing the reception of publications by Edwards and others entails many facets. Since Edwards’s published writings were issued as legitimate and illegitimate editions, in a number of places, and in a variety of formats, prices, and print runs throughout the eighteenth century, it would be difficult to say with certainty which of his books was the most popular during this period.
Another point to consider is that Edwards wrote most of his books with the ministers and the middling ranks of New England society in mind. As a whole, 21 Introduction 21 very few laypeople from his congregations at Northampton and Stockbridge bought his books. Fewer than eight people from Northampton, for instance, are listed on the subscription list for the first edition of Freedom of the Will, and most of those consisted of high-ranking members of Edwards’s church, like Ebenezer Hunt and Josiah Clark.
Besides the number of editions, print runs, and pricing, the popularity of Edwards’s books should also be considered in terms of chronology and geographical distribution. Looking at the graph of the timeline of Edwards’s works in Appendix 2, one can see that there were three periods of especially high productivity. The high output during the first period, from 1737 to around 1748, can be explained by the seemingly insatiable public appetite for revival literature at that time. 35 Within the span of this religious surge in the 1740s, Boston printers and booksellers published first editions of Discourses on Various Important Subjects, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Distinguishing Marks, Some 15 Introduction 15 Thoughts Concerning the Present Revival of Religion, Religious Affections, and An Humble Attempt.