Underground literature
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Underground literature is an epiteth for books that have attracted a cult following including banned books, transgressive fiction, controversial books and erotic literature. A near synonym would be cult fiction. The term first gained widespread attention with the publication of The Literary Underground of the Old Regime in 1982.
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See also
- Grub Street
- Underground
- Literature
- Anonymity in publishing
- Sade_biblio#Works_published_anonymously_and_clandestinely
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Bibliography
- The Literary Underground of the Old Regime (1982) by Robert Darnton
- The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France (1995) by Robert Darnton
- Rants and Incendiary Tracts
- The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley
- Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (1993) - Iain McCalman
- Grub Street: studies in a subculture (1972) by Pat Rogers
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