The Little Professor

This Last Three Weeks' Acquisitions

I am back in Western NY, albeit not quite awake, thanks to an exciting flight snafu.  There are some books here.

  • Mary Onley, One Stormy Night (National Sunday School Union, n.d.).  No, not a Bulwer-Lytton takeoff, but a religious novel about a sailor's family, death, and remarriage.  (eBay)
  • Julia Kavanagh, The Three Paths (William H. Hill, 1866).  US reprint of Irish novelist Kavanagh's historical novel, following the adventures of three young men in eighteenth-century France. (eBay)
  • Christopher Nicholson, Winter (Europa, 2015).  Historical novel about the elderly Thomas Hardy's infatuation with an actress, and its effect on his late poetry.  (Amazon)
  • Allan Massie, The Ragged Lion (Sceptre,1995).  Historical novel about, appropriately enough, the historical novelist Walter Scott.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Jeremy Kingston, Sherlock Holmes and a Scandal in Batavia (Robert Hale, 2015). As per the usual, the game is afoot, this time involving a nefarious plot on the life of Prince Alexander of the Netherlands.  (Amazon)
  • Maxim Jakubowski, The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories (Running Press, 2015).  Despite my usual complaints about an excess of Jack the Ripper in fiction, here's an anthology of forty Jackthe Ripper tales.  (Amazon)
  • Jarlath Killeen, Gothic Ireland: Horror and the Irish Anglican Imagination in the Long Eighteenth Century (Four Courts, 2005).  Analyzes the intersections of Catholicism and the Gothic in Irish Anglican self-consciousness.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Ruth Livesey, Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880-1914 (British Academy, 2007).  Argues for the integral role of Socialist thought in shaping the more radical aspects of Victorian aestheticism.  (Amazon)
  • James H. Murphy, Catholic Fiction and Social Reality in Ireland, 1873-1922 (Greenwood, 1997).  Examines the role of class and nationalist politics, in particular, in late-Victorian and early-twentieth century Irish Catholic novels.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Bradley Deane, The Making of the Victorian Novelist: Anxieties of Authorship on the Mass Market (Routledge, 2003).  Crafting of the concept of the "author" in relationship to issues of readership, gender, modes of publication, etc.  (eBay)
  • James G. Greenlee and Charles M. Johnston, eds., Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918 (McGill-Queen's, 1999).  Discusses the often fraught and tense relationships between missionaries and local colonial governments. (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Emmet Larkin, The Roman Catholic Church and the Plan of Campaign 1886-1888 (Cork University Press,1978).  The role of the Church in shaping the late-Victorian Irish constitution.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • ---, The Pastoral Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1750-1850 (Four Courts, 2006).  Priests (who and where), chapels, money, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Jordana Rosenberg, Critical Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion (Oxford, 2011).  Argues that discourses about modern "enthusiasm" (and secularism) are intimately connected to the development of free-market capitalism.  (Amazon)
  • Isabel Rivers and David L. Wykes, eds., Dissenting Praise: Religious Dissent and the Hymn in England and Wales (Oxford, 2011).  Examines the history of Dissenting hymnody from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.  (Amazon)
  • Simon Olding et al., A Victorian Salon: Paintings from the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum (Lund Humphries, n.d.).  Exhibition catalog of forty-seven paintings.  (eBay)
  • G. A. Bremner, Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire c. 1840-1870 (Yale, 2013).  Anglican church-building outside of England and its implications.  (Amazon)
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