Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

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1. Ossian and Ossianism

   Edited by Dafydd Moore

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   James Macpherson's The Poems of Ossian (1760-1763) were one of the publishing sensations of the eighteenth century. Macpherson's supposed discovery of the epic poet Ossian in the Scottish Highlands provoked fascination and controversy in equal measure. His vision of a romantic Celtic past of...

   Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge
2. Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries

   Edited by Jeffrey Kahan

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   Shakespeare Imitations is a collection of all-but-forgotten Shakespearean plays, composed between 1710 and 1820. These imitations, parodies and forgeries reveal the biases of eighteenth-century Shakespeare in London theatre. But these plays are far from derivative. Indeed, rather than simply...

   Published May 19th 2004 by Routledge
3. Romanticism and Science

   Subcultures and Subversions

   Edited by Tim Fulford

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is perhaps the best-known and most widely studied literary representation of science. Yet it is by no means the only text of its time to fictionalize the latest experiments and discoveries of natural philosophers. Science was burgeoning in the years 1760-1840,...

   Published June 19th 2002 by Routledge
4. Radical Food

   The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking 1790-1820

   Edited by Tim Morton

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   This three-volume set examines the cultural and literary history of food in the eighteenth century. It reprints exemplary texts from this fascinating and diverse subculture, which was gaining strength in a period of rapid urbanization, industrialization and revolutionary politics. Highlights...

   Published September 6th 2000 by Routledge
5. Sexual Outcasts

   1750-1850

   Edited by Ian McCormick

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   Sexual Outcasts presents a wide range of texts selected to illustrate the diversity of responses to the concealed body and to the secret or forbidden sexual practices of 1750-1850. Each volume follows the means by which prohibitions and taboos were produced and circulated. The reader can therefore...

   Published February 9th 2000 by Routledge
6. Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels (1830-47)

   Edited by Juliet John

   Series: Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850

   Cult Criminals is a set of early Victorian novels 'sensationally' popular with readers and of immense influence in the development of the novel form. All six novels, commonly labelled 'Newgate' novels, scandalized the Victorians by glamorizing criminals and led to a bitter literary controversy...

   Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge