
Relocated Memories
The Great Famine in Irish and Diaspora Fiction, 1846-1870
Marguerite Corporaal(Author)
Syracuse University Press
Published on 30. April 2017
Book
Hardback
328 pages
978-0-8156-3498-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Great Famine radically transformed Ireland; nearly one million people of the rural countryside died, and the eviction of farmers led to massive emigration. The Famine encouraged anti-English, nationalist sentiments, and this trauma is seen as pivotal in the development of an Irish anticolonial consciousness and in the identity formation of transatlantic Irish communities. In Relocated Memories, Corporaal challenges the persistent assumption that the first decades after the Great Irish Famine were marked by a pervasive silence on the catastrophe. Discussing works by well-known authors such as William Carleton and Anthony Trollope as well as more obscure texts by, among others, Dillon O'Brien and Susanna Meredith, Corporaal charts the reconfigurations of memory in fiction across generations and national borders.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
577 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-3498-0 (9780815634980)
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Marguerite Corporaal is associate professor of English at Radboud University in the Netherlands. She is the coeditor of Traveling Irishness in the Long Nineteenth Century.