Literary New Orleans

*Please note: the date of this course has changed from Tuesday, October 13 (date in the printed brochure) to Monday, October 19.

In this third and final session of “Literary New Orleans,” Logan Browning will examine Anne Rice’s The Feast of All Saints, an extraordinary historical novel set in early nineteenth-century New Orleans. Spoiler alert: There are no vampires in the novel. New Orleans is also notable for the number of cocktail recipes that have originated there. During the class, we will enjoy one of those libations to encourage our own creative attempts to understand the literary fascination with the “Accidental City,” the Big Easy, the Big Sleazy, NOLA, or just plain old New Orleans.

Logan Browning is a specialist in Victorian literature and publishing history; a contributor to the Oxford Reader’s Companion to Charles Dickens, the Oxford Handbook on Dickens, and other scholarly journals and reference works; and a faculty member of the Dickens Universe, housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His current research also includes the study of writing in and about New Orleans.