Literature and the Irish famine, 1845-1919
By: Melissa Fegan.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
Subjects: Literature and society -- Ireland.; British literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Ireland -- In literature.; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.; Ireland -- History -- 1837-1901.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Faction: the historiography of the Great Famine; title: War of words: the Famine in The Times and The Nation; title: Victims and voyeurs: travelling in Famine Ireland; title: The immigrant's evasion: the subtext of Trollope's 'Famine' novels; title: William Carleton in retrospect: the Irish prophecy man; title: 'A ghastly spectral army': history, identity, and the visionary poet; title: The black stream: politics and proselytism in second-generation Famine novels.