Collected Writings of Edward Rushton (1756–1814)
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Edward Rushton (1756–1814) was a poet, writer, bookseller and abolitionist. After losing his own vision, he opened a school for the blind, the oldest continuous such school in the world. Paul Baines is Professor of English at the University of Liverpool and co-editor of The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing.Reviews
'A very welcome book and one which does justice to Edward Rushton’s remarkable and unique literary achievement.'<br />
John Whale
<i>'The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton (1756–1814</i>), edited by Paul Baines and Franca Dellarosa’s <i>Talking Revolution: Edward Rushton’s Rebellious Poetics 1782–1814</i> (a first-rate critical biography) taken together, are two volumes that enable Rushton’s work to join a large and sometimes quite riveting body of material at the intersection of working-class poetry and the literary history of abolitionism.'<br />
Jenny Davidson, <i>SEL Review</i>
'Paul Baines’s <i>The Collected Writings of Edward Rushton</i>, is a triumph... space is given to Rushton’s poetry and prose in a manner that allows them to speak for themselves. Baines does not clutter the text with lengthy notes concerning textual variants, history, or glosses, instead confining these to a detailed but concise ‘commentary’ at the end of the volume.'<br />
Matthew Ward & Paul Whickman, <i>Year's Work in English Studies</i>
'[This is] the first modern volume of [Rushton's] collected works (painstakingly edited by Paul Baines)... As Baines pointed out at the 2014 conference marking both the bicentenary of Rushton’s death and the publication of these books, the attempt to collect, collate and rationalise the fugitive poetry of a figure whose work was often ephemeral, unattributed or reproduced without permission on either side of the Atlantic was a formidable one. The scale of this undertaking is evidenced by the 102 pages of commentary that accompany the works themselves.'<br />
Ryan Hanley, <i>The BARS Review</i>, No. 48
'[Baines] brings more attention to this fascinating writer.'<br />Jeffrey N. Cox, <i>Studies in English Literature</i>