TY  - BOOK
AU  - Catherine Nealy Judd
PY  - 2020
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781800790858
TI  - Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine
T2  - Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853
DO  - 10.3726/b17709
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059382
N2  - Ireland’s Great Famine generated Western Europe’s most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transformational upheaval. In Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine: Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853, author Catherine Nealy Judd proposes that a new literary genre emerged from the crucible of the Great Famine, that is, the Irish Famine travelogue. In her keenly argued and thoroughly researched book, Judd contends that previous scrutiny of Famine travel narratives has been overly broad, peripheral, or has tended to group Famine travelogues into an undi erentiated whole. Judd invites us to consider Famine-era travel narratives as comprising a unique subgenre within the larger discursive - eld of travel literature. Here Judd argues that the immensity of the Famine exerted great pressure on the form, topics, themes, and goals of Famine-era travelogues, and for this reason, Famine travel narratives deserve detailed and organized consideration, as well as critical recognition of their status as an unprecedented subgenre. Drawing on an extensive array of underutilized sources, Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine adumbrates the Irish Famine travelogue canon.
LA  - English
ER  -