Periodical Famines

Lindsay Janssen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Radboud University. She is editor (with Marguérite Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud van den Beuken) of Global Legacies of the Great Irish Famine: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives; (with Christian Noack and Vincent Comerford) of Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Histories, Memories and Representations of Famine in Ukraine and Ireland; and (with Marguérite Corporaal and Christopher Cusack) of Recollecting Hunger: An Anthology.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I: Transhistorical Connections
1. Famine Print Patterns
2. Famine and Temporal Stasis in a Story Paper: Young Ireland Magazine, 1875–88
3. Special Correspondence on Ireland in the Early 1880s: Current and Past Famines in Margaret Dixon McDougall's "A Tour through Ireland"
4. Famine, Fiction, and Historicity in The Irish Packet during the First Years of the Twentieth Century
Section II: Diasporic and Transnational Connections
5. "Famine, or Farms": McGee's Illustrated Weekly and the Betterment of the Poor Laborer's Lot, 1876–82
6. Humiliating the Nation: Imperial Oppression, Gender, and Hunger in Maud Gonne's Periodical Writings on Ireland and South Africa, 1898–1904
7. Imperialism versus Economic Progress: The Irish World and American Industrial Liberator and Robert Ellis Thompson on Famines in Ireland and India at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Conclusion: Travelling Irish Famine Memories in Transatlantic Periodical Culture
Appendix 1: Margaret Dixon McDougall, "A Tour Through Ireland," Daily Witness, April 16, 1881
Appendix 2: Margaret Dixon McDougall, "A Tour Through Ireland," Daily Witness, July 27, 1881
Appendix 3: Robert Ellis Thompson, "Free Trade Slays Millions," Irish World, February 20, 1897
Appendix 4: Chronological List of Creative Works which Contain Famine
Bibliography
Index