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Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814 (Eighteenth Century Worlds)
Franca Dellarosa
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Description for Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814 (Eighteenth Century Worlds)
Hardcover. This study sheds light on a major and until now little studied Liverpool writer, Edward Rushton (1782-1814), whose politics and poetics were imbued in the most pressing events and debates shaking the world during the Age of Revolution. Series: Eighteenth Century Worlds. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 243 x 18. Weight in Grams: 536.
This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), whose name was for a long time only associated with the foundation of the Royal School for the Blind in 1791. A former sailor, tavern keeper and editor of a paper, as of the turbulent 1790s Rushton owned a bookshop that was a hub of intense networking with many radical writers and intellectuals. His long-lasting, consistent commitment to the most pressing debates enflaming the Age of Revolution led him to question naval impressment and British repression in Ireland, the Napoleonic wars lacerating ... Read more
This book is the first academic study entirely devoted to Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), whose name was for a long time only associated with the foundation of the Royal School for the Blind in 1791. A former sailor, tavern keeper and editor of a paper, as of the turbulent 1790s Rushton owned a bookshop that was a hub of intense networking with many radical writers and intellectuals. His long-lasting, consistent commitment to the most pressing debates enflaming the Age of Revolution led him to question naval impressment and British repression in Ireland, the Napoleonic wars lacerating ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
Eighteenth Century Worlds
Condition
New
Weight
536g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381441
SKU
V9781781381441
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99-50
About Franca Dellarosa
Dr Franca Dellarosa is Senior Lecturer of English at the Università degli Studi di Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Italy.
Reviews for Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814 (Eighteenth Century Worlds)
Reviews 'The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton (1756–1814), edited by Paul Baines and Franca Dellarosa’s Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics 1782–1814 (a first-rate critical biography) taken together, are two volumes that enable Rushton’s work to join a large and sometimes quite riveting body of material at the intersection of working-class poetry and the literary history of abolitionism.' Jenny ... Read more