Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Capturing Dorothy Hartley’s point that there was a dislocation of the food supply during the Industrial Revolution, which occurred through the enclosure movement, the poor laws, the game and corn laws (qtd. in Consuming Fictions 8), this section would begin with the date of Thomas Malthus’s Principle of Population (1798) to capture voices invoked during the lead up to the Reform Bill of 1832.