This Week's Acquisitions

(Last week, I jettisoned forty-four books.  Of course I can add new ones.  Right? Er, right?)

• Susan Daitch, Paper Conspiracies (City Lights, 2011).  Historical novel set during and around the Dreyfus trial, featuring George Melies and assorted mysteries.  (Amazon)
• Antonia Hodgson, The Devil in the Marshalsea (Mariner, 2014).  In the eighteenth century, a wastrel lands in the Marshalsea Prison, then finds himself embroiled with a sinister murderer.  (Lift Bridge)
• Paul R. Messbarger, Fiction with a Parochial Purpose: Social Uses of American Catholic Literature, 1884-1900 (Boston UP, 1971).  Study of the emergence and didactic use of the Catholic novel in the USA, including reception history, reactions to various historical problems, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Christian Gutleben, Nostalgic Postmodernism: The Victorian Tradition and the Contemporary British Novel (Rodopi, 2001).  One of the first book-length studies of neo-Victorian fiction.  (Amazon)