This Week's Acquisitions
- "Father Prout" (pseud. the Rev. Francis Sylvester Mahony), The Works of Father Prout, ed. Charles Kent (Routledge, 1881). Mahony, an Irish Catholic priest, became a popular essayist in Fraser's Magazine.
- Emma Donoghue, Life Mask (Harcourt, 2004). The 1780s and 1790s, as seen through the eyes of Eliza Farren, Anne Damer, and the Earl of Derby.
- Michael Moorcock, Gloriana; Or, the Unfulfilled Queen (Aspect, 2004). Reprint of Moorcock's elaborate fantasy about an "Elizabethan" empire.
- Colm Toibin, The Master (Scribner, 2004). Much-discussed novel about Henry James.
- Anne Taylor, Laurence Oliphant, 1829-1888 (Oxford, 1982). Biography of the Victorian traveller and eccentric. (Here's Henry Adams on an evening with Oliphant.)
- Stanley Olson, John Singer Sargent: A Portrait (St. Martin's Griffin, 2001). Biography of the expatriate American painter.
- Lisa Rosner, The Most Beautiful Man in Existence: The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier (Penn, 1999). The adventures, erotic and otherwise, of a Regency and early Victorian medical man, also known as Alexander Hamilton. The James Lind Library has an account of Lesassier's papers.
- Arlene R. Keizer, Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery (Cornell, 2004). Examines representations of slavery and subjectivity in African-American and Caribbean fiction, poetry, and historiography.