The city of Liverpool in the 1790s and early 1800s was experimenting in the making of an advanced debate, in which the activity of individual networking in a range of diverse communal contexts proved to be strategic to constructing a political space for self-expression. This paper aims to chart some of the fragmented traces of this public debate, which included a variegated milieu of writers and intellectuals from the working classes. Liverpool labouring class blind poet – and sailor, innkeeper, journalist, bookseller – Edward Rushton (1756-1814) is in many ways the embodiment of this particular form of late eighteenth-century sociability, and for this reason makes an especially effective case study.
Labouring-Class Writing in Liverpool, 1790s-1810s: Communal Networks and Revolutionary Undercurrents
Franca Dellarosa
2024-01-01
Abstract
The city of Liverpool in the 1790s and early 1800s was experimenting in the making of an advanced debate, in which the activity of individual networking in a range of diverse communal contexts proved to be strategic to constructing a political space for self-expression. This paper aims to chart some of the fragmented traces of this public debate, which included a variegated milieu of writers and intellectuals from the working classes. Liverpool labouring class blind poet – and sailor, innkeeper, journalist, bookseller – Edward Rushton (1756-1814) is in many ways the embodiment of this particular form of late eighteenth-century sociability, and for this reason makes an especially effective case study.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
