The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • The Papal Attempt to Re-convert England (RTS, 1896).  "Agendas," Victorian-style.  (Some of the tracts advertised at the end look rather intriguing; I especially like Alexis; Or the Danger of Indecision.  No One Ever Told Me This Before would seem to cover quite a bit of ground...) 
  • Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (Vintage, 1998).  Interlocking narratives about Jewish and African experiences over several centuries.
  • Suzy Anger, ed., Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature & Culture (Cornell, 2001).  Victorians talking about the past; scholars talking about the Victorians.
  • John B. Roney, The Inside of History: Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigne and Romantic Historiography (Greenwood, 1996).  Critical study of the bestselling historian, emphasizing narrative structures. 
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