Talking revolution : Edward Rushton's rebellious poetics, 1782-1814

Talking revolution : Edward Rushton's rebellious poetics, 1782-1814

Edward Rushton's rebellious poetics, 1782-1814|Expostulatory letter to George Washington, of Mount Vernon, on his continuing to be a holder of slaves

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2014.

xvii, 238 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.

820.9 D357 2014

(OCoLC)882530490

Study on Liverpool labouring-class poet and activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814), long associated with the foundation of the Royal School for the Blind in 1791. From the turbulent 1790s Rushton owned a bookshop that was a hub of intense networking with many radical writers and intellectuals. A dedicated and unrelenting campaigner at the time of the dawning human rights discourse, Rushton was both a perceptive scrutinizer of the mechanisms of power and repression, and a remarkably complex poetic voice, fully consequent to his politics--Back cover.
Facsimile of title page on p. [201]: "Expostulatory letter to George Washington, of Mount Vernon, on his continuing to be a holder of slaves, Lexington, 1797.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-230) and index.
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