By Melissa Fegan
The influence of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was once exceptional in either political and mental phrases. the consequences of famine-related mortality and emigration have been devastating, within the box of literature at the very least in different parts. during this incisive new research, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it within the paintings of latest writers and their successors, right down to 1919. Dr. Fegan examines either fiction and non-fiction, together with journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an exam of famine literature that easily categorizes it as "minor" or perspectives it simply as a silence or a lack misses the very genuine contribution that it makes to our knowing of the interval. this is often a massive contribution to the research of Irish heritage and literature, sharply illuminating modern Irish mentalities.
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