NEWS RELEASE

Contact: Leigh Flynn (flynnl@alpha.nsula.edu)
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

5/18/2000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES - Dr. Paralee F. Norman, professor of English at Northwestern State University's Leesville/ Fort Polk campus, is anticipating the publication of her book, "Marmion Wilme Savage (1804-1872): Dublin's Victorian Satirist."

The Edwin Mellen Press of Lewiston, N.Y., and Wales, British Isles, will publish the book, which is due out later this summer.

With the help of Juanita Darby, computer systems manager at the Fort Polk campus, Norman formatted her manuscript to follow the Mellen Press guidelines.

Savage was a 19th Century Irish writer who poked fun at those around him as a corrective. Norman describes the honor graduate from Trinity College, Dublin, as a "brilliant man" whose five long novels and 36 shorter pieces call for a re-evaluation among those who have read him.

He had the misfortune, Norman believes, of working as a barrister during the infamous potato famines, which made literary survival difficult for one disagreeing with established solutions to problems. Now out of print, Norman contends that Savage's works deserve to be republished and read by students of our time as well as avid readers who can appreciate his lightly satiric art.

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