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In the age of empire, Victorians and Romantics over the long 19 th century faced issues of governance that no other society had faced on such a massive level, causing socio-political questions that had to be addressed based on sheer necessity but little governmental experience. In an age in which there was a decade referred to as "the Hungry Forties," and in which the Great Famine in Ireland... Read more
Volume 1: ‘Guttling and Guzzling’: The Immiseration of the Poor, or ‘Perish[ing] from the Table of Nature’ (1795-1840)
Volume 2: ‘King Starvation Reigns Supreme’: The Hungry Forties (1839-1850)
Volume 3: Malthusian Economics and the ‘Capacity for Evil’: The Poor, the Cotton Famine, and the Orissa Famine (1850-1870)
Volume 4: ‘Slaughter and "Scuttle"’: Trouble at Home and Abroad (1870-1914)
Biography
Gail Turley Houston, Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies, University of New Mexico, USA
