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• Title: Elizabeth Gaskell's 'the Poor Clare' and the Irish Famine.
• Author : Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies
• Release Date : January 22, 2010
• Genre: Reference,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 370 KB

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Abstract Studies of English literary responses to the Irish Famine have usually focused on Anthony Trollope's Castle Richmond (1860), which is often seen as paradigmatic of English opinion. This essay argues for a reassessment of the treatment of the Famine in English literature by reading Elizabeth Gaskell's 1856 short story 'The Poor Clare' as an allegorical comment on the Great Hunger. Through the fate of its protagonist, an 18th-century Irish nun who allows herself to starve to death, Gaskell's text provides an indirect, but stinging critique of the British government's response to the crisis. This critique is contextualised within broader shifts in Gaskell's thinking on social, economic, and religious issues. By dealing with the Irish Famine through a historical allegory, Gaskell avoids courting controversy with English readers who showed signs of 'Famine fatigue', and simultaneously broadens the scope of her critique of the English political economy. The essay finally makes a plea for an approach to Famine literature that moves beyond issues of trauma and representability, and includes texts whose main aim, like Gaskell's, is the rhetorical production of ethical responses in the reader.

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