38 - Alias Grace: Sensationalism, Crime & Madness (ft. Just Watch Me)

In which we are joined by the great Liv and Kate ('Just Watch Me' podcast) to talk about Margaret Atwood's 1996 historical fiction novel, Alias Grace. We discuss Atwood's use of fiction and history, the novel's purpose, Victorian perceptions of women and crime, and much more!

Patrick's opinion is majorly pushed back against and the episode is worth it just for that!

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Sources & Further Reading:

• Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace, McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
• Atwood, Margaret. "In Search of Alias Grace: On Writing Canadian Historical Fiction." The American Historical Review, vol. 103, no. 5, 1998, pp. 1503–1516. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2649966.
• Goldblatt, Patricia F. "Reconstructing Margaret Atwood's Protagonists." World Literature Today, vol. 73, no. 2, 1999, pp. 275–282. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40154691.
• Hulan, Renee. "Margaret Atwood's Historical Lives in Context: Notes on a Postcolonial Pedagogy for Historical Fiction." Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature, ed. by Cynthia Sugars, University of Ottawa Press, 2004, pp. 441–460. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ckpc18.28.
• Peters, Joan Douglas. "Feminist Narratology Revisited: Dialogizing Gendered Rhetorics in Alias Grace." Style, vol. 49, no. 3, 2015, pp. 299–320. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/style.49.3.0299.
• Stanley, Sandra Kumamoto. "The Eroticism of Class and the Enigma of Margaret Atwood's 'Alias Grace.'" Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, vol. 22, no. 2, 2003, pp. 371–386. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20059158.