Literature and the Irish famine, 1845-1919 / Melissa Fegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fegan, Melissa.

Series:

Oxford historical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--Irish authors.

Famines in literature.

Literature and history--Ireland--History--19th century.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--Ireland--History--20th century.

History.

Historiography.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852--Historiography.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882--Knowledge and learning--Ireland.

Trollope, Anthony.

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Ireland--In literature.

Physical Description:

281 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr. Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as "minor" or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-271) and index.

ISBN:

0199254648

OCLC:

50269568