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... recommend[ed] as a fine advertisement for Irish Studies at its best. Irish Studies Review ... there is much to interest historians of the Famine. Irish Studies Review ... refreshing insights captured by a careful regard for period and chronology, allied to informed literary criticism, written with clarity and authority. Irish Studies Review [Melissa Fegan's] work is a valuable and sophisticated negotiation between the disciplines of history and literature. Times Literary Supplement ... luminous ... It is a study which greatly enriches and complicates the excellent literary analyses of the Famine already provided by Margaret Kelleher and Christopher Morash over the past decade ... fine book. Times Literary Supplement ... a satisfyingly comprehensive treatment, which puts the ""picturesque"" tradition into a coolly dialectical relationship with the far messier world of social process. Times Literary Supplement

... recommend[ed] as a fine advertisement for Irish Studies at its best. Irish Studies Review ... there is much to interest historians of the Famine. Irish Studies Review ... refreshing insights captured by a careful regard for period and chronology, allied to informed literary criticism, written with clarity and authority. Irish Studies Review [Melissa Fegan's] work is a valuable and sophisticated negotiation between the disciplines of history and literature. Times Literary Supplement ... luminous ... It is a study which greatly enriches and complicates the excellent literary analyses of the Famine already provided by Margaret Kelleher and Christopher Morash over the past decade ... fine book. Times Literary Supplement ... a satisfyingly comprehensive treatment, which puts the picturesque tradition into a coolly dialectical relationship with the far messier world of social process. Times Literary Supplement

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Melissa Fegan is a Lecturer in English at Chester College of Higher Education.

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