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Dellarosa, Franca

 
9781781381441: Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton's Rebellious Poetics, 1782-1814
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ISBN 10 : 1781381445 ISBN 13 : 9781781381441
Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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 Europe and, most prominently, both the transatlantic traffic in human beings and the institution of slavery as such. 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. In this book his work is the object of new and long-due critical enquiry, especially appropriate in the year that marks the bicentennial anniversary of his death. The opening up of eighteenth-century and Romantic studies to cross-disciplinary interchange allows for a more nuanced historical and critical investigation of previously erased or neglected individual and collective experiences. This expanding critical space, which highlights the systemic discursive interaction of culture, politics and society, constitutes the conceptual and methodological frame for what is intended as a comprehensive critical re-evaluation of the writer.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr Franca Dellarosa is Senior Lecturer of English at the Universita degli Studi di Bari 'Aldo Moro', Italy.

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Éditeur
Liverpool University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1781381445
ISBN 13 
9781781381441
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
256
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