This Week's Acquisitions
(Three cheers for the University of Chicago Press sales catalog!)
- Jody Shields, The Crimson Portrait (Little, Brown, and Co., 2006). Love, mutilation, and art in WWI.
- Barry Unsworth, The Ruby in Her Navel: A Novel of Love and Intrigue in the 12th Century (Nan A. Talese, 2006). Political and religious machinations in 12th-c. Palermo.
- Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock (Knopf, 2006). New collection of short stories.
- John Banville, The Book of Evidence (Scribner's, 1989). Murder, art theft, and confession.
- Penelope Lively, Spiderweb (Viking, 1998). Anthropologist in rural retirement.
- Patrick McCabe, The Dead School (Delta, 1996). Aftermath of a schoolday horror in Ireland.
- ---, The Butcher Boy (Delta, 1994). Madness and murder in Northern Ireland.
- George Levine, Dying to Know: Scientific Epistemology and Narrative in Victorian England (Chicago, 2002). Victorians and the pursuit of perfect knowledge.
- Alain Besancon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm (Chicago, 2001). Religious art, pro- and contra.
- A. Bowdoin van Riper, Men Among the Mammoths: Victorian Science and the Discovery of Human Prehistory (Chicago, 1991). The scientific and theological implications of prehistory.
- Thomas Gisborne, Sermons Principally Designed to Illustrate and Enforce Christian Morality (T. Cadell, 1809). Volume of this extremely popular clergyman's sermons.
- E. B. Pusey, Parochial and Cathedral Sermons (Walter Smith, 1883). High Church sermons.
- William Whewell, Of the Plurality of Worlds... (Chicago, 2001). Facsimile of the 1853 edition.
- Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England (Chicago, 2004). Gender and the spiritualist movement.