Mad, Bad and Vegetarian: The Eccentric Career of James Elmslie Duncan, Chartist Poet, Vegetarian and Divinarian C.1843-1853

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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Examining the madness of politics, the badness of poetry and the prevalence of pogonophobia, this lecture discusses radical and eccentric movements in Britain during the 1840s, through the tragi-comic figure of James Elmslie Duncan. It stems from Gregory’s work on movements of self-reform such as vegetarianism, Chartism, and ideas about the 'eccentric' in British culture. Duncan found a wider audience for his poetry during the Chartist disturbances of 1848, but his ambition to be the apostle of a new religion ended in the lunatic asylum
Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth
Tickets: Full £6.00 Concessions £4.00