This Week's Acquisitions
- Talia Schaffer, Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft & Nineteenth-Century Fiction (Oxford, 2011). Study of the importance of crafts (e.g., embroidery, wax-working, doll-making, etc.) in nineteenth-century fiction and culture. (Amazon)
- Susan Ostrov Weisser, The Glass Slipper: Women and Love Stories (Rutgers, 2013). New feminist study of romance narratives and their persistence. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Mark W. Turner, Trollope and the Magazines: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain (Macmillan, 2000). Examines Trollope's interactions with the periodical market as both writer and editor, noting how his work engages with debates over changing gender roles in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. (Amazon)
- D. G. Paz, ed., Nineteenth-Century English Religious Traditions: Retrospect and Prospect (Greenwood, 1995). Essay collection offering an overview of various denominations, as well as freethinkers. (Amazon [secondhand])