Fifth Reading Group: "Sex and Apocalypse in Utah"
University of Kent, Canterbury
10 June 2016, 1-5pm
Rutherford Building Extension 12
Readings: The Book of Mormon (1830)
[Available here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mormon/browse.html]
> Peter Coviello, 'To Speak of the Woe That is Marriage', Chapter 4 of Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (NYU Press, 2013)
> Jared Hickman, 'The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse', American Literature, 86.3 (Sep 2014): 429-61
For the Summer 2016 Reading Group, BrANCA will be considering a work of literature seldom included within the canon of the "literary," which has nonetheless exerted a huge influence on the direction of American culture in the subsequent centuries: The Book of Mormon. Discussions will range widely around questions of gender, polygamy and sexuality, to the condition of the text as "revelation," history, or apocalypse. We will consider the role of race, imperialism and the mythology of the vanishing indian, and discuss the contemporary position of Mormonism politically and socially.
To help with organisation (including refreshments) please register your attendance with the group's host, Michael Collins, at m.j.collins@kent.ac.uk by 6 June 2016.
**There are some limited funds to help support current postgraduate students towards travel costs. For more information on this please contact Michael Collins at m.j.collins@kent.ac.uk**
Directions for driving, and parking and public transport information can be found here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/locations/canterbury/directions.html
Unibus1, Unibus 2 and 36 bus serve the university campus and can be picked up at Canterbury Bus Station and Canterbury East and West train stations.
A campus map can be viewed here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/
University of Kent, Canterbury
10 June 2016, 1-5pm
Rutherford Building Extension 12
Readings: The Book of Mormon (1830)
[Available here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mormon/browse.html]
> Peter Coviello, 'To Speak of the Woe That is Marriage', Chapter 4 of Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (NYU Press, 2013)
> Jared Hickman, 'The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse', American Literature, 86.3 (Sep 2014): 429-61
For the Summer 2016 Reading Group, BrANCA will be considering a work of literature seldom included within the canon of the "literary," which has nonetheless exerted a huge influence on the direction of American culture in the subsequent centuries: The Book of Mormon. Discussions will range widely around questions of gender, polygamy and sexuality, to the condition of the text as "revelation," history, or apocalypse. We will consider the role of race, imperialism and the mythology of the vanishing indian, and discuss the contemporary position of Mormonism politically and socially.
To help with organisation (including refreshments) please register your attendance with the group's host, Michael Collins, at m.j.collins@kent.ac.uk by 6 June 2016.
**There are some limited funds to help support current postgraduate students towards travel costs. For more information on this please contact Michael Collins at m.j.collins@kent.ac.uk**
Directions for driving, and parking and public transport information can be found here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/locations/canterbury/directions.html
Unibus1, Unibus 2 and 36 bus serve the university campus and can be picked up at Canterbury Bus Station and Canterbury East and West train stations.
A campus map can be viewed here: https://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/