The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • The Sister of Mercy: A Tale for the Times We Live In (Kessinger, 2010).  In a moment of desperation, I broke down and purchased this "scrape" from GoogleBooks--which is, of course, mysteriously unavailable on GoogleBooks, even though the original 1854 publication date would make it rather out of copyright.   I continue to be very interested in how this happens, precisely.   (eBay)
  • Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Knopf, 2014).  Experiences in a Japanese POW camp during WWII.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Lloyd Shepherd, Savage Magic (Simon & Schuster, 2014).  Third in Shepherd's series of historical-cum-Gothic detective novels featuring Constable Charles Horton, this time involving strange tales of witchcraft in early nineteenth-century England.  (Amazon UK)
  • John Harding, The Girl Who Couldn't Read (Blue Door, 2014).  Sequel to Harding's Turn of the Screw rewrite Florence & Giles, set this time in a late-nineteenth-century insane asylum.  (Amazon UK)
  • Emily Walker Heady, Victorian Conversion Narratives and Reading Communities (Ashgate, 2013).  Links the conversion narrative to other literary and biographical forms, especially the novel, and analyzes how several authors (expected and otherwise) self-reflexively explored the possibilities of such narratives.  (Review copy)
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