About the Book
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?
Table of Contents:
Volume 2: ‘King Starvation reigns supreme’: The Hungry Forties (1839-1850)
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
General Introduction
Introduction Volume 2: ‘King Starvation reigns supreme’: The Hungry Forties (1839-1850)
Part 1. The Demise of the Social Contract
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2. Anon. ‘Clitheroe’, Northern Star, 4 June 1842, p. 1.
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4. Anon., ‘’What is at Hand?’, Commonwealthsman, 18 June 1842, pp. 4-5.
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8. Feargus O’Connor, ‘To the Members of the Chartist Co-Operative Land Society’, Northern Star, 3 October 1846, p. 1.
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11. Anon., ‘Threatened Starvation of Thousands!’, Freeman’s Journal, 12 December 1849. p. 2.
Part 2 Reform Meetings, Placards
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20. Anon., ‘Public Prayers to Avert Famine’, Northern Star, 3 October 1846, p. 1.
Part 3. Child Labour, Hunger
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28. Anon., ‘The Agricultural Labourers.--Another Smock-frocked meeting in Wiltshire’, Morning Chronicle, 12 February 1846, pp. 2-3.
29. ‘Buckle’, ‘The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. A Story for Emigrants’, Douglas Jerrold’s Weekly Newspaper, 29 July 1848, p. 964.
Part 4. Turnips, Bone Crushing, Refuse, Fish Guts
30. William Baxter, ‘Letter’, 1 June 1842, August–September 1842, Somerset, MS Civil Disturbance, Chartism and Riots in Nineteenth-Century England: Part One, 1841-1844 Box 259.
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33. Anon., ‘Ireland’, Times, 12 January 1847, p. 5.
34. Anon., ‘The Famine’, Northern Star, 23 January 1847.
35. Anon., ‘Appalling Distress in Claremorris’, and ‘The Condition of the People--Mayo’, Freeman’s Journal, 16 January 1847, p. 2.
36. Anon., ‘The Starvation Process’, Freeman’s Journal, 12 January 1849, p. 2.
37. Anon., ‘Distress in Ireland – Lord John Russell – The Rev. Mr. Anderson’,, Freeman's Journal, 4 June 1849, p. 2.
Part 5. The Worker and the Drone, Celt and Saxon
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39. Anon., ‘There would be something highly ludricous’, Times, 12 February 1846, p. 4.
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41. Anon., ‘English Press On Irish Famine’, Tuam Herald, 28 November 1846, p. 2.
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46. Anon., ‘Condition of Ireland’, Preston Chronicle and Lancashire Advertiser, 17 July 1847, p. 4.
47. Guy William Augustus, ‘THE Plague of Beggars’, Fraser’s Magazine, 37 (1848), pp. 395-402, © British Library Board. Displayed with permission of ProQuest LLC.
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Part 6. Death by Starvation
49. Anon., ‘Deaths from Starvation’, Tuam Herald, 28 November 1846, p. 1.
50. Anon., ‘Destitution in Skibbereen’, Morning Chronicle, 9 January 1847, p. 7.
51. Anon., ‘IRELAND: CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY’, Examiner, 20 February 1847, p. 122, © British Library Board. Displayed with permission of ProQuest LLC.
52. ‘State of the Country’, Freeman’s Journal, 16 February 1847, p. [2].
53. David Hadden, ‘The Scarcity’, British magazine, 31 (1847), pp. 459-80, on pp. 462-5, 468-9, 474-5, 477-8.
54. Charles Boner, ‘The Song of Starvation’, Literary gazette: A weekly journal of literature, science and the fine arts, 1590 (1847), p. 509.
55. Anon., ‘Famine in Cork’, Times, 11 January 1847, p. 2.
56. Anon., ‘State of the Country--Starvation!’, Freeman’s Journal, 2 March 1849, p, 2.
57. Donald MacLeod, Gloomy Memories in the Highlands of Scotland, Glasgow: Archd. Sinclair, 1886.
Index
About the Author :
Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USA
