This (Last Two) Weeks' Acquisitions
- L. T. Meade, The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories, ed. Janis Dawson (Broadview, 2016). Collection of Meade's late-Victorian detective fiction for the Strand magazine. (Amazon)
- Lyndsay Faye, Jane Steele (Putnam's, 2016). A young orphan, also an avid reader, finds inspiration in Jane Eyre as she murders her merry way along. (Amazon)
- Danielle Dutton, Margaret the First (Catapult, 2016). Historical novel about Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. (Lift Bridge)
- Douglas Galbraith, The Rising Sun (Atlantic, 2001). At the end of the seventeenth century, young Roderick Mackenzie goes out on the Darien scheme, with unfortunate results. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Gerd Gigerenzer et al., The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life (Cambridge, 1989). Effects of probability theory on multiple scientific, cultural, and moral domains, ranging from gambling to insurance to physics. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison, Objectivity (Zone, 2010). Emergence and transformations of "objectivity" across scientific disciplines. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Felicity James and Ian Inkster, eds., Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740-1860 (Cambridge, 2012). Discusses the educational, political, and literary pursuits of John Aikin Sr. and Jr., Arthur Aikin, Lucy Aikin, and Anna Letitia Barbauld. (Amazon)
- Stefania Tutino, Shadows of Doubt: Language and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture (Oxford, 2014). Examines the margins of early modern Catholic theology, focusing on their discussions of such topics as rhetoric, testimony, and historiography. (Amazon)
- Margaret A. Loose, The Chartist Imaginary: Literary Form in Working-Class Political Theory and Practice (Ohio, 2014). Analyzes how Chartist poetry (in particular) and fiction intervened in contemporary debates about social reform, liberation, and so on. (Amazon)
- Hila Shachar, Cultural Afterlives and Screen Adaptations of Classic Literature: Wuthering Heights and Company (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Uses WH as a test case to study how adaptations mediate our understanding of canonical texts. (Amazon [secondhand])