This (Last) Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- The Feast of Flowers (P. J. Kenedy, 1894). Collection of Catholic moral tales, possibly by Frances Taylor (one of the tales, a novella, is definitely hers). (eBay)
- Joyce Carol Oates, A Bloodsmoor Romance (Ecco, 2013). Reprint of Oates' neo-Victorian quasi-SF novel tracking the adventures of sisters in search of their abducted sibling. (Lift BRidge)
- Meredith Martin, The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 (Princeton, 2012). New history of English meter, investigating the relationship between systems and nationalism. (Scholar's Choice)
- Deborah Cohen, Family Secrets: Shame and Privacy in Modern Culture (Oxford, 2013). Intellectual history of changing attitudes to domestic secrecy, including sex and violence. (Scholar's Choice)