Radical Food : The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking 1790-1820

This three-volume set examines the cultural and literary history of food in the eighteenth century.

It includes some exemplary texts from this fascinating and diverse subculture, which was gaining strength in a period of rapid urbanization, industrialization and revolutionary politics.

Some highlights include: the period's most influential pamphlet about boycotting sugar as part of the anti-slavery debate, works on alcohol consumption, and Shelley's translation of Euripedes' satyr play about cannibalism.