Ireland’s Great Famine, Britain’s Great Failure Michael Woolcock

Ireland’s Great Famine, Britain’s Great Failure Michael WoolcockThis book provides readers with a unique, in depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how cultural as well as economic and political influences shaped British reaction to the Famine.

Radically revises the idea of a gothic tradition and traverses two centuries of Irish literary history to give a fluent and detailed account of the emerging relation between Irish culture

film and architecture

and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture

Drawing on texts by canonical authors while illuminating new sources and understudied works

Vienna appears in cinema as

students and aficionados of film and cinematic psychogeography

Centuries of reading and writing practice have made us Homo typographicus

South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters

and same-sex marriage

By bringing institutional perspectives to the study of how alliances operate

A Progressive Education

have assumed the orality of fairy tales