Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919

by Melissa Fegan

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199254648
• ISBN13: 9780199254644
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.8"