The Feminization of Famine

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"This book is well conceived, the sources intelligently selected, the writing elegant and sinuously argued."--Maud Ellman, King's College, Cambridge

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Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
'Appalling Spectacles': Nineteenth-Century Irish Famine Narratives	p. 16
Contemporary Testimonies
William Carleton's The Black Prophet
Anthony Trollope's Castle Richmond
The Female Gaze: Nineteenth-Century Women's Famine Narratives	p. 64
Women's Famine Fiction
Asenath Nicholson's Famine Annals
Women's Philanthropy
Impersonating the Past: Twentieth-Century Irish Famine Literature	p. 109
Famine and the Revival
The Memories of an 'Outcast' Class
A Mother's 'Nature': O'Flaherty and Murphy
Literature of the Bengal Famine	p. 162
The Historical Context
Literary Representations of Famine
Shakti, Sati, Savitri: the Fate of Female Figures
Famine as Female: the Fate of Kali
Postscript: Contemporary Images of Famine and Disaster	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 251
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