Title Writing the Irish famine / Christopher Morash

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages) Contents Progress -- Narratives of progress -- Malthus and the famine novel -- Mitchel's hunger -- Apocalypse -- A very Victorian apocalypse -- Sins of the nation -- A new Ireland -- Claiming the dead -- William Carleton and the end of writing -- Conclusion: Claiming the dead Summary In the late 1840s, more than one million Irish men and women died of starvation and disease, and a further two million emigrated in one of the worst European sustenance crises of modern times. Yet a general feeling persists that the Irish Famine has eluded satisfactory representation. Writing the Irish Famine examines literary texts by writers such as William Carleton, Anthony Trollope, James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel, and Samuel Ferguson, and reveals how they interact with histories, sermons, and economic treatises to construct a narrative of one of the most important and elusive events in Irish history In this strikingly original and compelling contribution to Irish cultural studies, Christopher Morash explores the concept of the Famine as a moment of absence. He argues that the event constitutes an unspeakable moment in attempts to write the past - a point at which the great Victorian metanarratives of historical change collapse. Aligning itself with new historicist literary criticism, Writing the Irish Famine examines the attempts of a wide range of nineteenth-century writing to ensure the memorialization of an event which seems to resist representation Analysis English literature Special subjects Food supply Shortages Ireland Northern Ireland Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-203) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography Historiography -- Ireland 18.05 English literature. 15.70 history of Europe. Famines -- Historiography Historiography Engels. Letterkunde. Hongersnood. Famines -- Dans la littérature. Littérature irlandaise -- Thèmes, motifs. Famines -- Irlande -- 19e siècle -- Historiographie. SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Historiography Subject Ireland Irlande -- 1837-1901 -- Historiographie. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191673887 0191673889

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