HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
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HUNGER AND FAMINE IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY (ebook)

GAIL TURLEY HOUSTON

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The Hungry Forties and the Great Famine, with their horrifying monikers, deserve a section just for the many voices engaged in political, humanitarian, and social venues in juxtaposition to the voices of the starving. This volume shows how rhetoric itself experiences a crisis of representation in the face of such dramatic, tragic events: how does a culture deal with its own chosen guilty and irrational psychological motives for casting a blind eye to famine within its own borders?

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