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Writing the Irish Famine (Hardcover)
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Writing the Irish Famine (Hardcover)
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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 eluded satisfactory
representation. Writing the 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, economic treatises to construct a
narrative of the most important and elusive events in Irish
history. In this strikingly original and compelling contribution to
Irish culture studies, Christopher Moras explores the concept of
the Famine as a moment of absence. He argues 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 historical literary criticism,
Writing the Famine examines the attempts of a wide range of
nineteenth-century writing to ensure the memorialization of an
event which seems to resist representation.
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