Ireland\'s Great Famine generated Western Europe\'s most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transformational upheaval.
In her keenly argued and thoroughly researched book.
In Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine: Politics, Tourism, and Scandal, 1845-1853 , author Catherine Nealy Judd proposes that a new literary genre emerged from the crucible of the Great Famine, that is, the Irish Famine travelogue.
Ireland\'s Great Famine generated Western Europe\'s most devastating social crisis of the nineteenth century, a crisis that created enormous and transformational upheaval