This Week's Acquisitions
- Catherine Sinclair, Modern Accomplishments; Or the March of Intellect (Robert Carter & Brothers, 1849). US reprint of Sinclair's late-1830s satire, which sends up various errors (mostly about religion) in aristocratic circles. I also own the sequel, Modern Society.
- James Hogg, Tales of the Wars of Montrose, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2002). Scholarly edition of Hogg's linked series of five tales, all set during the Wars of Montrose (1644-45).
- Uzodinma Iweala, Beast of No Nation (HarperCollins, 2005). A boy soldier in West Africa.
- Nancy Armstrong, How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900 (Columbia, 2005). Further adventures in the novel and subjectivity. I'll be writing about this in a Valve book event.
- Ivan Kreilkamp, Voice and the Victorian Storyteller (Cambridge, 2005). Studies "vocal performances and the preservation and representation of speech" in Victorian literature. I'm reviewing it for Choice.
- Caroline Levine, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (UP of Virginia, 2003). A narratological approach to realism.
- James Mackintosh, Vindiciae Gallicae and Other Writings on the French Revolution (Liberty Fund, 2006). Tracks Mackintosh's shifting attitude to the French Revolution and its implications. The newest entry in the "Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics" series.
- Walter Farquhar Hook, Auricular Confession: A Sermon. Preached in the Parish Church of Leeds, October 29, 1848... (F. & J. Rivington, 1848). High Church approach.
- The Rev. Cecil Wray, Catholic Reasons for Rejecting the Modern Pretensions and Doctrines of the Church of Rome (Joseph Masters; W. Grapel, 1846). An attack on Roman Catholicism on "primitive Catholic" grounds.