Description: Collected Writings of Edward Rushton : 1, Paperback by Rushton, Edward; Baines, Paul (EDT), ISBN 1800349165, ISBN-13 9781800349162, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose of Edward Rushton (1). Blinded by trachoma after an outbreak on the slaving ship in which he was a young officer, Rushton returned to Liverpool to scratch a living as a publican, newspaper editor, and finally bookseller and publisher. In his day Rushton was a well-known Liverpool poet and reformer, with an impressively wide range of causes (the Liverpool Blind School, the Liverpool Marine Society, and many radical political groups). Many of his songs, particularly the marine ballads, were very familiar in Britain and America. In the later Victorian period, as a particular version of romanticism began to dominate literary sensibilities, Rushton's overt politics fell from favour and he became rather obscure, at least by comparison with his like-minded (but much better off) friend William Roscoe. As the history of slavery abolition and other radical causes has come to be re-examined, the bicentenary of Rushton's death, falling in November 2014, has suggested an opportunity to take a new look at his remarkable career and impressive body of work. There has never been a critical edition of Rushton's poems. His own 1806 edition omits much (including what is his best-known work in modern times, the anti-slavery West-Indian Eclogues of 1787), and the posthumous 1824 edition omits much from the 1806 collection while drawing in other work. The edition works from the earliest datable sources, in newspapers, chapbooks, periodicals, and broadsides, providing a clean text with significant revisions and variants noted in the commentary, glosses on unfamiliar words, with brief contexts and explanations informed by the latest scholarship.
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Book Title: Collected Writings of Edward Rushton : (1756-1814)
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.7in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Edward Rushton
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Modern / 18th Century, Modern / 19th Century, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: History, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
