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Informationen zum Autor David A. Valone is associate professor of history at Quinnipiac University. He has co-edited volumes on Anglo-Irish Identities, 1543-1845 (Bucknell, 2008), Philanthropic Foundations and the Globalization of Scientific Medicine and Public Health (University Press of America, 2006), and Reverence Life, Revisited: Albert Schweitzer's Relevance Today (Cambridge Scholars, 2006). Klappentext The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history. Zusammenfassung The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume! focused on the theses of relief! representation! and remembrance! contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history! literary criticism! anthropology! and art history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Contents Chapter 2 Preface Part 3 Part One: Famine Relief Chapter 4 One: A Jersey Ship for Ireland Chapter 5 Two: "We cannot but regret the great delay": Reflections on the Writings of the North Dublin Union Guardians during the Irish Famine Part 6 Part Two: Writing the Famine Chapter 7 Three: Great Hunger, Unspeakable Home: Landscape, Nature, and Original Sin in Lady Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl and William Carleton's The Black Prophet Chapter 8 Four: Mapping the Imperial Body: Body Image and Representation in Famine Reporting Chapter 9 Five: Representing the Famine, Writing the Self: Irish-Canadian Narratives Chapter 10 Six: Writing the Famine, Healing the Future: Nuala O'Faolain's My Dream of You Chapter 11 Seven: The Cyberculture of Grosse Île Part 12 Part Three: Famine Rememberence Chapter 13 Eight: The Famine, Irish-American Transition, and a Century of Intellectual and Cultural History Chapter 14 Nine: Remembering Homelessness in the Great Irish Famine Chapter 15 Ten: "She must have come steerage": The Great Famine in New England Chapter 16 Eleven: Towards a Famine Art History: Invention, Reception, and Repetition from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth Chapter 17 List of Contributors Chapter 18 Index...
