Episode 13C: Alias Grace Part 3

Описание: n this episode we discus penal reforms of the mid nineteen century, asylums and the Victorian spiritualist movement.

This episode concludes a three part series where we have examined the 2017 mini-series Alias Grace. This CBC production is a fictionalized retelling of the events surrounding a murder trial in mid-19th century Canada. Over the next few episodes Sloan and Viktoria will unpack the depiction of pre-confederation urban life in Ontario. The story told in Alias Grace is only inspired by the historical events surrounding the murder trial and conviction of Grace Marks. As such, rather than analyzing the events depicted, these episodes will instead focus on how well this min-series depicts the historical realities of life and society in the era.

Alias Grace is based off the 1996 book by Margaret Atwood by the same title. If you'd like to watch the series yourself as we continue to discuss it over the next few episodes it is available on Netflix to Canadian service users at the time of this instalment being published.

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Citations and further reading:

McCoy, Ted.(2012) Hard Time: Reforming the Penitentiary in 19th Century Canada.

Chu, E. M.-Y., van Santen, J., & Harbishettar, V. (2018). Views from an asylum: a retrospective case note analysis of a nineteenth century asylum. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 53(10), 1141–1147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-15...