"A Great Public Transaction": Fast Days, Famine, and the British State.
The National Day of Fast and Humiliation, observed in 1847 on the occasion of the Irish Famine, highlights the contested nature of Victorian conceptions of the public. Fast days are interesting in part because they produced a vast amount of literature: sermons, poems, newspaper articles, and essays....
| Published in: | Victorian Studies Vol. 61; no. 3; pp. 446 - 467 |
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Indiana University Press
Spring2019
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