Talking revolution : Edward Rushton's rebellious poetics, 1782-1814 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2014.
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| Series: | Eighteenth-century worlds.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I : Local Radicalism
- 1. "'Written near one of the Docks of Liverpool"
- 2. "A gang of fierce hirelings appear" : fighting the Press Gang and other sea stories
- 3. "Yet still our isle's enslaved" : the Irish poems
- Part II : Global radicalism
- 4. Writing against Empires
- Interlude : Of commerce, Empire, and the banality of evil
- 5. West-Indian Eclogues (1787), or, the Opacity of form
- 6. Envisioning the unthinkable : history, agency, and the Haitian Revolution
- 7. Washington, Rushton, Garrison (and Paine) : Following the Transatlantic currents of history