Leslie A. Williams

Daniel O'Connell, The British Press and The Irish Famine (eBook, PDF)

Killing Remarks

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Produktbeschreibung

Through an investigation of the reportage in nineteenth-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question 'Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to "killing remarks," rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?' Continuing her survey of the press after the death of O'Connell, Leslie Williams demonstrates how the editors, writers and cartoonists who reported and commented on the growing crisis in peripheral Ireland drew upon a metropolitan mentality, in which anti-Irish bias was deeply embedded in language and images. She concludes, however, that the real 'subject' of the British Press commentary on the Irish Famine was Britain itself. Ireland was used as a negative mirror to re-enforce Britain's own commitment to capitalist, industrial values at a time of great internal stress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351946377
• Artikelnr.: 47955647

Autorenporträt

Leslie A. Williams, author of Daniel O'Connell, the British Press, and Killing Remarks, was an art historian specializing in the Victorian period. At the time of her death she was Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio. William H. A. Williams, editor, is historian and author of 'Twas Only an Irishman's Dream: The Image of the Irish and Ireland in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800-1920. He is member of the faculty of the College of Undergraduate Studies, Union Institute & University, Cincinnati, Ohio