This Week's Acquisitions
- Leonore Davidoff, Thicker than Water: Siblings and Their Relations, 1780-1920 (Oxford, 2012). Studies the history of the family not via parent-child relationships, but rather through the "lattice" of sibling connections in various guises (age, gender, after marriage, etc.). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Frank Ferguson and James McConnel, eds., Ireland and Scotland in the Nineteenth Century (Four Courts, 2009). Travel, migration, interconnections, religious issues, etc. (Amazon)
- Lance St. John Butler, Victorian Doubt: Literary and Cultural Discourses (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990). What it says on the tin: explores Victorian religious questions via the emergence of "doubt" as a serious category. (Amazon [secondhand])