| Description |
ix, 342 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / George Cusack -- 1. The stricken land : the great hunger in Ireland / Christine Kinealy -- 2. The caoineadh in famine poetry : a communal expression of defiance / Katherine Parr -- 3. 'Philosophick views'? : Maria Edgeworth and the great famine / Margaret Kelleher -- 4. The limits of empathy : Trollope's 'Castle Richmond' / Margaret Scanlan -- 5. 'Dracula' and the spectre of famine / Sarah Goss -- Feeding on gossamer, caught in the web : famine tensions in Yeats's 'The Countess Cathleen' / Jerome Joseph Day -- 7. 'In the gripe of the ditch' : nationalism, famine and 'The playboy of the Western world' / George Cusack -- 8. The Joyce of eating : feast, famine and the humble potato in 'Ulysses' / Bonnie Ross -- 9. 'Buried! Who would have buried her?' : famine 'ghost graves' in Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame' / Julieann Ulin -- 10. Frank O'Connor and the Irish holocaust / Robert C. Evans -- 11. Tom Murphy : famine and dearth / Nicholas Grene -- 12. Irresponsible anorexia : the ethics of Eavan Boland's famine / Nieves Pascual -- 13. 'It was a life-changing book' : tracing Cecil Woodham-Smith's impact on the canon of children's literature of the Irish famine / Karen Hill McNamara -- 14. An afterword on silence / Christopher Morash. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Irish authors. |
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Famines in literature.
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Famines in literature. |
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Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Added Author |
Cusack, George, 1975-
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Goss, Sarah Judith, 1974-
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| ISBN |
9780716533870 paperback |
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0716533863 |
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9780716533863 |
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0716533871 paperback |
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