This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Celia Jones, Stories for the Christian Year (Joseph Masters, 1875). Three volumes from a multi-volume set in the spirit of John Keble's The Christian Year, consisting of short stories written to suit the liturgical calendar. (eBay)
- Colin Winnette, The Job of the Wasp (Soft Skull, 2018). Mysterious boy winds up at equally mysterious orphanage, where bad things ensue. (Lift Bridge)
- John McWilliams, Revolution and the Historical Novel (Lexington, 2018). Examines the formal effects of narrating revolutionary movements, especially the French Revolution, with an emphasis on the nineteenth century but reaching to Hilary Mantel. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Dennis Butts, Mistress of our Tears: A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland (Scolar, 1992). An overview of the career of Hofland, an important early-to-mid-nineteenth century practitioner of the moral tale. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Julie Kipp, Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic (Cambridge, 2003). Analyzes the intersections between representations of motherhood and ways of talking about national identity in the early nineteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jason D. Solinger, Becoming the Gentleman: British Literature and the Invention of Modern Masculinity, 1660-1815 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Shifting definitions of manhood, impacted by religion, "politeness," imperialism, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])