This Week's Acquisitions

(I've decided to start indicating which books come from where.)

• Michel Faber, The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories (Canongate, 2007).  Neo-Victorian short story collection that spins off from Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Mary Swan, The Boys in the Trees: A Novel (Holt, 2008).  Historical novel-cum-mystery set in turn-of-the-century England and Canada.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Sam Taylor, The Amnesiac (Faber & Faber, 2007).  Man has amnesia, finds interesting but ominous manuscript.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• John Harvey, Victorian Novelists and Their Illustrators (NYU, 1971).  The art of Victorian illustration--Cruikshank, Phiz, etc.  (eBay)
• Melissa Fegan, Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919 (OUP, 2002).  "Famine literature" as a genre.  (Oxford)
• Simon Joyce, The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror (Ohio, 2007).  Study of the political and cultural apppropriations of "the Victorians."  (Scholar's Choice at the 2008 NeMLA)
• Joe D. Burchfield, Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth (Chicago, 1990).  Kelvin's interventions in geological disputes.  (eBay)
• Gordon Rupp, Religion in England, 1688-1791 (OUP, 1987).  Standard ecclesiastical history.  (Oxford)