Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine
Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Ed. Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, Lindsay Janssen and Ruud van den Beuken. Reimagining Ireland 60. Oxford: Peter Lang, forthcoming 2014. xii+345pp. ISBN: 978-3034309035.
CONTENTS
MARGUÉRITE CORPORAAL, CHRISTOPHER CUSACK, LINDSAY JANSSEN
Introduction
SECTION I Rewriting History
MARGARET KELLEHER
The ‘Affective Gap’ and Recent Histories of Ireland’s Great Famine
PETER GRAY
The Great Famine in Irish and British Historiographies, c.1860–1914
ANDREW G. NEWBY
‘Rather Peculiar Claims Upon Our Sympathies’:
Britain and Famine in Finland, 1856–1868
PETER SLOMANSON
Cataclysm as a Catalyst for Language Shift
SECTION II Rereading the Classics
GORDON BIGELOW
Anthony Trollope’s Famine Economics
CHRIS MORASH
‘Where All Ladders Start’:
Famine Memories in Yeats’s Countess Cathleen
SECTION III Commemorating the Dead
JONNY GEBER
Reconstructing Realities:
Exploring the Human Experience of the Great Famine through Archaeology
MELISSA FEGAN
Waking the Bones:
The Return of the Famine Dead in Contemporary Irish Literature
SECTION IV Spacing the Famine
DECLAN CURRAN
Geographic Scale and the Great Famine
PAUL S. ELL, NIALL CUNNINGHAM, IAN N. GREGORY
No Spatial Watershed:
Religious Geographies of Ireland Pre- and Post-Famine
SECTION V Atlantic Connections
DAVID SIM
Philanthropy, Diplomacy and Nationalism:
The United States and the Great Famine
JASON KING
The Remembrance of Irish Famine Migrants in the Fever Sheds of Montreal
MARK G. MCGOWAN
Contemporary Links between Canadian and Irish Famine Commemoration
Afterword
DAVID LLOYD
Afterword:
The Afterlife of the Untimely Dead
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