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The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose
of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). 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; the posthumous 1824
edition omits much from the 1806 collection while drawing in other
work. The present 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. Unfamiliar words are glossed, and brief introductions
and contextual commentaries, informed by the latest scholarship,
are given for each piece of writing.
The edition brings together the known writings in poetry and prose
of Edward Rushton (1756--1814). 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; the posthumous 1824
edition omits much from the 1806 collection while drawing in other
work. The present 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. Unfamiliar words are glossed, and brief introductions
and contextual commentaries, informed by the latest scholarship,
are given for each piece of writing.
Essays highlight the interplay between opera, art and ideology
across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up from a
variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and national
opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and opera
and otherness. Opera, that most extravagant of the performing arts,
is infused with the contexts of power-brokering and cultural
display in which it was conceived and experienced. For individual
operas such contexts have shifted over time and new meanings
emerged, often quite remote from those intended by the original
collaborators; but tracing this ideological dimension in a work's
creation and reception enables us to understand its cultural and
political role more clearly - sometimes conflicting with its status
as art and sometimes enhancing it. This collection is a Festschrift
in honour of Julian Rushton, one of the most distinguished opera
scholars of his generation and highly regarded for his innovative
studies of Gluck, Mozart and Berlioz, among many others.
Colleagues, associates and former students pay tribute to his work
with essays highlighting the interplay between opera, art and
ideology across three centuries. Three broad themes are opened up
from a variety of approaches: nationalism, cosmopolitanism and
national opera; opera, class and the politics of enlightenment; and
opera and otherness. British opera is represented bystudies of
Grabu, Purcell, Dibdin, Holst, Stanford and Britten, but the
collection sustains a truly European perspective rounded out with
essays on French opera funding, Bizet, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi,
Puccini, Janacek, Nielsen, Rimsky-Korsakov and Schreker. Several
works receive some of their first extended discussion in English.
RACHEL COWGILL is Professor of Musicology at Liverpool Hope
University. DAVID COOPER is Professor of Music and Technology at
the University of Leeds. CLIVE BROWN is Professor of Applied
Musicology at the University of Leeds. Contributors: MARY K.
HUNTER, CLIVE BROWN, PETER FRANKLIN, RALPH LOCKE, DOMINGOS DE
MASCARENHAS,DAVID CHARLTON, KATHARINE ELLIS, BRYAN WHITE, PETER
HOLMAN, RACHEL COWGILL, ROBERTA MONTEMORRA MARVIN, DAVID COOPER,
RICHARD GREENE, J.P.E. HARPER-SCOTT, DANIEL GRIMLEY, STEPHEN MUIR,
JOHN TYRRELL.
Title: Expostulatory letter to George Washington, of Mount Vernon,
in Virginia, on his continuing to be a proprietor of slaves.Author:
Edward RushtonPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based
on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets,
serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their
discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original
accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward
expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin
Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western
hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores
of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of
the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North,
Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection
highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture,
contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides
access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02819600CollectionID:
CTRG99-B161PublicationDate: 17970101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 24 p.; 19 cm
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG95-B3535Includes index.London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1903.
305 p., 5] leaves of plates: ill.; 23 cm
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm26123657Attributed to Edward Rushton.London: Simpkin,
Marshall, 1842. 32 p.; 20 cm.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT125903Anonymous. By Edward Rushton. An errata
slip is pasted to the foot of the final page.London: printed for W.
Lowndes, and J. Philips, 1787. 6],32p.; 4
Title: Poems and other writings, by the late E. Rushton; to which
is added a sketch of the life of the author by ... William
Shepherd.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY &
DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised
by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of
literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian
verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and
poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage
and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Rushton, Edward;
Shepherd, William; 1824. 8 . 993.l.36.
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