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