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«Poor Green Erin»

German Travel Writers’ Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine- Texts Edited, Translated and Annotated by Eoin Bourke

de Eoin Bourke (Éditeur de volume)
©2013 Monographies XX, 776 Pages

Résumé

The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years in treatises in both English and German, but these efforts were directed largely at fellow-scholars and formed part of an academic discourse on travel, interculturality and alterity. This book, on the other hand, is conceived of more as a reader for the general public than as an academic treatise, presents a surprisingly extensive body of comments drawn from German and Austrian sources from between 1783 and 1865 and lets them «talk for themselves». Some of these remarkably empathetic and well-founded eye-witness accounts were translated into English already in the 19th century by people like Sarah Austin and Sir Lascelles Wraxhall, but the editor has re-translated them to remove varying degrees of antiquatedness of formulation and has added other accounts that were hitherto largely unknown to the non-German-speaking reading public.

Résumé des informations

Pages
XX, 776
Année de publication
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9783653025743
ISBN (Relié)
9783631628614
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-02574-3
Langue
anglais
Date de parution
2012 (Février)
Mots clés
Religious discrimination The Act of Union Repeal Movement Colonialism landlordism absenteeism Irish poverty Catholic Emancipation
Publié
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011, 2013. XX, 776 pp.
Sécurité des produits
Peter Lang Group AG

Notes biographiques

Eoin Bourke (Éditeur de volume)

Eoin Bourke, born in Dublin in 1939; emeritus professor of German Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway; undergraduate studies and doctorate at Munich University; author of books on the literature of the late romantic and post-romantic period and the Austrian Anschluss in history and literature as well as of many articles in several research areas including Vormärz, travel and expedition literature, migrant literature, the critical folk play, literature as testimony and German-Jewish studies.

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