Talking Revolution : Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781781387481
- 821.6
- PR3671.R57 .D455 2014
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Text -- Edward Rushton: Timeline -- Rushton Edward, Bookseller, 56 Paradise Street -- 'Written near one of the Docks of Liverpool'* -- 'A gang of fierce hirelings appears' -- 'Yet still our isle's enslaved' -- Writing Against Empires -- Interlude: Of Commerce, Empire, and the Banality of Evil -- West-Indian Eclogues, or, The Opacity of Form -- Envisioning the Unthinkable -- Washington, Rushton, Garrison, (and Paine) -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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