Fegan, MelissaMorash, Christopher2025-03-142025-03-142026-12-31Fegan, M. (2026 - forthcoming). Tales of the peasantry and famine. In C. Morash (Ed.), The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel. Cambridge University Press.http://hdl.handle.net/10034/629299This material has been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press, and a revised form will be published in [The Cambridge History of the Irish Novel] edited by [Christopher Morash] [http://doi.org/XXX, if available]. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use. © copyright holder.This chapter considers the representation of the Irish peasant in nineteenth-century fiction: in the moral tales of Mary Leadbeater, national tales by Maria Edgeworth and Lady Morgan, the rise of Catholic novelists such as Gerald Griffin and the Banims, and those who emerge from the peasantry themselves, such as William Carleton; and the way representation is affected by social and political events such as agrarian outrages, the Famine, and the Land League.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Irish peasantFictionPeasantryIrish FictionBook chapterI'm unsure what the publisher usually requires2025-03-13