num_pages: 720
description: 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 include: influential writing concerning the anti-slavery debate, works on alcohol consumption, and Shelley's translation of Euripedes' satyr play about cannibalism.
language: English
title: Radical Food: The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking 1790-1820 (Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850)
titlecomplete: Radical Food: The Culture and Politics of Eating and Drinking 1790-1820 (Subcultures and Subversions: 1750-1850) (3 Volume Set)
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Routledge