Poor Green Erin : German Travel Writers' Narratives on Ireland from Before the 1798 Rising to After the Great Famine
ISBN: 9783653014839
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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Subjects: Literature;

The area of 19th-century German travel writing on Ireland has received widespread scholarly attention over the years in treatises in both English and German, but these efforts were directed largely at fellow-scholars and formed part of an academic discourse on travel, interculturality and alterity. This book, on the other hand, is conceived of more as a reader for the general public than as an academic treatise, presents a surprisingly extensive body of comments drawn from German and Austrian sources from between 1783 and 1865 and lets them #65533;talk for themselves#65533;. Some of these remarkably empathetic and well-founded eye-witness accounts were translated into English already in the 19th century by people like Sarah Austin and Sir Lascelles Wraxhall, but the editor has re-translated them to remove varying degrees of antiquatedness of formulation and has added other accounts that were hitherto largely unknown to the non-German-speaking reading public.

Eoin Bourke, born in Dublin in 1939; emeritus professor of German Studies at National University of Ireland, Galway; undergraduate studies and doctorate at Munich University; author of books on the literature of the late romantic and post-romantic period and the Austrian Anschluss in history and literature as well as of many articles in several research areas including Vorm#65533;rz , travel and expedition literature, migrant literature, the critical folk play, literature as testimony and German-Jewish studies.

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