This Week's Acquisitions
- Richard Francis, Crane Pond: A Novel of Salem (Europa, 2016). Historical novel about Samuel Sewall (of whom Francis has also written a scholarly biography), the one judge who repudiated his own actions during the Salem Witch Trials. (Amazon)
- Eric C. Walker, Marriage, Writing and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen after War (Stanford, 2009). Analysis of the relationship between marriage and modern subjectivity. (Amazon [secondhand])
- D. G. Paz, Dickens and Barnaby Rudge: Anti-Catholicism and Chartism (Merlin, 2006). Examines the extent to which Barnaby Rudge, set during the Gordon Riots, is also a commentary on contemporary working-class politics. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Melissa Shields Jenkins, Fatherhood, Authority, and British Reading Culture, 1831-1907 (Ashgate, 2014). Study of Victorian masculinity through the lens of the patriarch-as-reader, including in Meredith, Eliot, and Hardy. (Amazon [secondhand])