Editors' Introduction - Editoriale

This double volume, special issue of _La Questione Romantica_ brings to completion a process of historical and literary recovery that began a good number of years ago, to re-appropriate and celebrate the long-silenced and enthralling legacy of Romantic-era labouring-class poet, committed intellectual and political activist Edward Rushton (1756-1814). Recovering and uncovering Edward Rushton as a remarkably complex voice and a committed intellectual, fully immersed in the Age of Revolution, has been our scholarly task throughout. The recovery process implies engaging in the construction of increasingly complex, systemic frames for recognizing and interpreting the phenomena that are under our lens.