This Week's Acquisitions
(OMG $90 AMAZON DISCOUNTS, BATMAN.)
- Ian Haywood, ed., The Literature of Struggle: An Anthology of Chartist Fiction (Scolar, 1995). A collection of tales and excerpts covering working-class life, radical uprisings, women's issues, etc. And...um, I think I bought the last one they had in stock. (Amazon)
- ---, ed., Chartist Fiction, Vol. II: Ernest Jones, Woman's Wrongs (Ashgate, 2001). Collects Jones' stories about women's oppressions in mostly working-class life (with an excursion into upper-class circles). It looks like this was also the last one Amazon had in stock. I detect a theme. (Amazon)
- Viola Di Grado, 70% Acrylic 30% Wool, trans. Michael Reynolds (Europa, 2012). An Italian immigrant to England is transformed by her new relationship with a Chinese man. (Freebie)
- Samuel Pufendorf, An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe, ed. Michael J. Seidler (Liberty Fund, 2013). Reprint of this 1695 historical overview (originally classroom lectures), situated in the context of Pufendorf's philosophy. (Liberty Fund)
- Shane McCorristine, Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-Seeing in England, 1750-1920 (Cambridge, 2010). Examines contexts such as the Gothic, spiritualism, psychology, the Society for Psychical Research, etc. (Amazon)
- James H. Murphy, ed., Evangelicals and Catholics in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Four Courts Press, 2005). Collection covering such topics as fiction, anti-Catholicism, evangelism, travel writing, political agitation, etc. Yup, bought Amazon's last copy of this, too. The theme continues! (Amazon)