This Week's Acquisitions

(Did I mention that I went to Powell's when I was in Chicago? Ssshh! Don't tell my parents.)

• William Clarke, Three Courses and a Dessert (Nonsuch, 2005).  Reprint of an 1830 collection of short stories, illustrated by George Cruikshank.  It's now better known for the illustrations than the stories.  (Powell's)
• Robert S. Surtees, Ask Mamma: Or the Richest Commoner in England (Nonsuch, 2005).  Reprint of Surtees' social satire, set among the rural hunting crowd.  Illustrated by John Leech.  (Powell's)
• Francine Prose, Judah the Pious (Macmillan, 1986).  Prose's first novel--a neo-Rabbinical tale of sorts.  (Powell's)
• Cynthia Ozick, Trust (Mariner, 2004).  Reprint of Ozick's first novel, featuring a young woman in search of her long-lost father.  (Powell's)
• Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (Walker, 2006).  Hefty study of eighteenth-century satirical culture, including artists like James Gillray.  (Powell's)
• Maureen N. McLane, Romanticism and the Human Sciences (Cambridge, 2006).  Literature and the "new" sciences of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including the study of populations (Malthus, etc.).  (Powell's)
• Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens (Cornell, 2007).  Dickensian epistemology, as it were.  (Powell's)
• Isabel Rivers, ed., Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Continuum, 2003).  Essays in book history.  (Powell's)
• Lucy Bending, The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Oxford, 2000).  Hellfire, vivisection, etc.  (Powell's)
• Hughes Oliphant Old, The Age of the Reformation (Eerdmans, 2002).  One volume of Olds' history of preaching.  (eBay)