The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red (Vintage, 2002).  Art and murder in sixteenth-century Istanbul.
  • Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler, eds., Romanticism And Religion from William Cowper to Wallace Stevens (Ashgate, 2006).  Collection featuring essays on Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, etc.  I'm reviewing it for Choice. 
  • Helen O'Connell, Ireland and the Fiction of Improvement (Oxford, 2006).  Study of Irish novels devoted to "demonstrating the value of hard work, frugality, and sobriety in a rigorously realistic mode, representing the contentment that inheres in a plain social order free of excess and embellishment."
  • The Protestant's Manual; Or, Reasons for the Reformation (RTS).  Collects seventeen tracts on a variety of sixteenth-century topics, ranging from Irish Catholics to Catherine Parr.
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