Travel Narratives of the Irish Famine

Catherine Nealy Judd earned her MA and PhD degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. Currently, she is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where she researches and teaches Nineteenth-Century Irish, British, and American historical and literary topics. She is the author of Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Literary Imagination, 1830-1880, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on such subjects as Henry James and the Civil War and Anthony Trollope’s Famine novel Castle Richmond.

• Contents: Introduction – Early Famine Travelers, 1845–1846 – «An Acre of Stony Ground»: Orangeism, Wastelands, and Agriculture in Thomas Campbell Foster’s Letters, 1845–1846 –Theresa Cornwallis West’s 1846 Summer Visit: United Irishmen, Young Ireland, and Mazzini’s Risorgimento – Relief Work and Infrastructure, 1847–1848 – Peripatetic Charity in 1847: Pilgrimage, Soup Kitchens, and Skibbereen – Athlone, the Bog of Allen, and Famine Civil Engineering, 1846 to 1847 – Revolution and Compassion Fatigue, 1848–1850 – Revolutionary Ireland, 1848: New York City Tourists and the John Mitchel Trial – Celebrity Tourists, 1848–1849: De Vere and Tennyson – Duffy and Carlyle – Sidney Godolphin Osborne, the Irish Famine, and the Illustrated London News, 1849–1850 – Late Famine Ireland, 1849–1853 – «Obliterated, Never to Return»: Travel Literature in Late and Post Famine Ireland, 1849–1853.

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