This Week's Acquisitions
(Well, a week plus a few days, but who's counting?)
- Carol Birch, Orphans of the Carnival (Doubleday, 2016). Parallel-plot historical novel about a young freak show performer in the 1850s and an English woman in the 1980s. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Gillian Beer, Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll (Chicago, 2016). A new contextual study of the Alice books. I'm reviewing this for Open Letters Monthly next year. (Review copy)
- Jesse Rosenthal, Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel (Princeton, 2016). Argues that the Victorians understood reading narrative as inseparable from moral reasoning; discusses Dickens, Eliot, and Newgate novels, among other forms. (Amazon)
- Maia McAleavey, The Bigamy Plot: Sensation and Convention in the Victorian Novel (Cambridge, 2015). Studies the Victorian obsession with bigamy, here exemplified in novels by Dickens, Gaskell, Bronte, etc. (Amazon)
- Francesco Manzini, The Fevered Novel from Balzac to Bernanos: Frenetic Catholicism in Crisis, Delirium, and Revolution (IGR, 2011). The significance of the suffering woman for 19th- and early 20th-century French Catholic fiction. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Kathrin Levitan, A Cultural History of the British Census: Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Approaches to, methods used in, justifications for, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Gareth Atkins, ed., Making and Remaking Saints in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Manchester, 2016). A series of case studies devoted to nineteenth-century appropriations of, lectures on, and hagiographies devoted to various saints, from Paul to Therese of Lisieux. (Amazon [secondhand])