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Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century

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?

Gail Turley Houston

  • Routledge
  • 9780367187521
  • 224 pages
  • Hardback
  • United Kingdom
  • Social & cultural history