Rethinking a decade of speculation, innovation and anxiety The 1820s has commonly been overlooked in literary and cultural studies, seen as a barren interregnum between the achievements of Romanticism and the Victorian era proper, or, at best, as a time of transition bridging two major periods of cultural production. This volume contends that the rapid and unexpected transformations of the 1820s are of considerable interest in themselves and vital for comprehending how nineteenth-century culture developed and changed, determining what survived and what was consigned to the past. Remediating the 1820s explores the decade's own sense of itself as a period of expansion in terms of the projection of British power and knowledge, but also its tremendous uncertainty about where this left traditional identities and moral values. The collection reveals how the remediations of the 1820s reshaped culture and society in ways that continue to resonate today. Jon Mee is Professor of Eighteenth-century Studies at the University of York. Matthew Sangster is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow.