Date Thesis Awarded
Spring 5-2009
Access Type
Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only
Degree Name
Bachelors of Arts (BA)
Department
English
Advisor
Melanie Dawson
Committee Members
Deborah Denenholz Morse
Christy L. Burns
Suzanne Raitt
Frederick C. Corney
Abstract
Literature of the Great Irish Famine struggles to contain the disaster within narrative. William Carleton and Anthony Trollope, two first-hand witnesses of the Famine, write novels haunted by trauma. Though they attempt to explain the disaster by incorporating it into an ideologically-motivated story, their narratives crumble whenever they focus on human scenes of suffering.
Recommended Citation
O'Mealia, Sean, "Consuming Fictions: Trauma and Ideology in Irish Famine Literature" (2009). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 856.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/856
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Comments
Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.