![]() ![]() It's also, picking up on some of the ideas that we were talking about at the last BrANCA reading group, a deeply pleasurable read (others may disagree, but it's difficult to imagine). ![]() I could go on (and, on Friday, probably will, so apologies in advance). ![]() It pushes a lot of my buttons since it sits at the centre of a number of intertwined issues that are preoccupying me at the moment: forgotten bestsellers, questions of canonicity, sensation fiction, Transatlantic currents, the 1870s. This was a book that I've been eager to have an excuse to read and think about for a while. I'm looking forward to hearing what other people thought about it and her (a little trepidatiously, almost!), and I don't want to jump the gun on what evolves in that discussion, but here are a few thoughts in advance of Friday (no spoilers, if you're still reading). This Friday I'm co-hosting (along with my colleague Hilary Emmett) the second reading group of the British Association of Nineteenth Century Americanists. The text that we've chosen for the event is Anna Katharine Green's The Leavenworth Case (1878), so I've been spending plenty of time recently thinking about this book and Green's life and career more generally. ![]()
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