Second Reading Group: "Forgotten Sensations"
University of East Anglia, Anteros Arts Foundation
7 November 2014
Readings:
> Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case (1878)
> Lucy Sussex, “The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green”, in Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 164-182.
> Hugh McIntosh, "The Sensational Turn and the Civil War: Thrilling the Broken Nation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento and Augusta Jane Evans's Macaria", ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 58:3 (2012), 338-374.
> Stacey Margolis, “Trollope for Americanists”, J19, 1:2 (Fall 2013), 219-228.
Building on the conversations started at Manchester in June, the second BrANCA Reading Group will continue the pursuit of pleasure through discussion of Anna Katharine Green’s The Leavenworth Case (1878). A very significant (though now largely forgotten) bestseller that was the debut publication of Green’s long and influential career, The Leavenworth Case was famously praised in its day by Wilkie Collins - “Her powers of invention are so remarkable - she has so much imagination.” As such, it (and a small selection of secondary readings) should also prove a good jumping off point for further discussions about such issues as Transatlantic sensationalism, popular fiction and the canon, and genre and gender.
University of East Anglia, Anteros Arts Foundation
7 November 2014
Readings:
> Anna Katharine Green, The Leavenworth Case (1878)
> Lucy Sussex, “The Art of Murder: Anna Katharine Green”, in Women Writers and Detectives in Nineteenth-Century Crime Fiction: The Mothers of the Mystery Genre (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 164-182.
> Hugh McIntosh, "The Sensational Turn and the Civil War: Thrilling the Broken Nation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Agnes of Sorrento and Augusta Jane Evans's Macaria", ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, 58:3 (2012), 338-374.
> Stacey Margolis, “Trollope for Americanists”, J19, 1:2 (Fall 2013), 219-228.
Building on the conversations started at Manchester in June, the second BrANCA Reading Group will continue the pursuit of pleasure through discussion of Anna Katharine Green’s The Leavenworth Case (1878). A very significant (though now largely forgotten) bestseller that was the debut publication of Green’s long and influential career, The Leavenworth Case was famously praised in its day by Wilkie Collins - “Her powers of invention are so remarkable - she has so much imagination.” As such, it (and a small selection of secondary readings) should also prove a good jumping off point for further discussions about such issues as Transatlantic sensationalism, popular fiction and the canon, and genre and gender.
