Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine: Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853

ISBN-13: 9781800790841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 508 str.

Catherine Nealy Judd

Opis

Proposes that a new literary genre emerged from the crucible of the Great Famine, that is, the Irish Famine travelogue. Judd invites us to consider Famine-era travel narratives as comprising a unique subgenre within the larger discursive field of travel literature.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - Early Famine Travelers, 1845-1846 - «An Acre of Stony Ground»: Orangeism, Wastelands, and Agriculture in Thomas Campbell Foster's Letters, 1845-1846 -Theresa Cornwallis West's 1846 Summer Visit: United Irishmen, Young Ireland, and Mazzini's Risorgimento - Relief Work and Infrastructure, 1847-1848 - Peripatetic Charity in 1847: Pilgrimage, Soup Kitchens, and Skibbereen - Athlone, the Bog of Allen, and Famine Civil Engineering, 1846 to 1847 - Revolution and Compassion Fatigue, 1848-1850 - Revolutionary Ireland, 1848: New York City Tourists and the John Mitchel Trial - Celebrity Tourists, 1848-1849: De Vere and Tennyson - Duffy and Carlyle - Sidney Godolphin Osborne, the Irish Famine, and the Illustrated London News, 1849-1850 - Late Famine Ireland, 1849-1853 - «Obliterated, Never to Return»: Travel Literature in Late and Post Famine Ireland, 1849-1853.