This Week's Acquisitions
- Gail Godwin, Flora (Bloomsbury, 2013). Tensions between a child and her guardian in a suspiciously Gothic household, ca. WWII. (BOMC)
- Adelene Buckland, Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology (Chicago, 2013). The nineteenth-century's most controversial science and its effect on literary temporality and spatiality. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Margaret H. McFadden, Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism (Kentucky, 1999). International networks (Anglo-American, Continental, etc.) and the shaping of feminist discourse. (eBay)
- Sheridan Gilley, ed., Victorian Churches and Churchmen: Essays Presented to Vincent Alan McClelland (Boydell, 2005). Festschrift for leading scholar of British Catholicism, primarily focusing on Catholic issues (not surprisingly) but also Methodism, Tractarianism, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])