Hunger and famine in the long Nineteenth Century. Volume II, King Starvation Reigns Supreme : The Hungry Forties (1839-1850) / edited Gail Turley Houston.

Abingdon : Routledge, 2022.

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Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USA

The Hungry Forties and the Great Famine,with their horrifying monikers, deserve a section just for the many voices engaged in political, humanitarian, and social venues in juxtaposition to the voices of the starving. Thisvolume shows how rhetoric itself experiences a crisis of representation in the face of such dramatic, tragic events: how does a culture deal with its own chosen guilty and irrational psychological motives for casting a blind eye to famine within its own borders?

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