This Week's Acquisitions

(Free books are always welcome...)

• James Howard Kunstler, World Made By Hand (Grove, 2009).  Apocalyptofic, upstate NY-style.  (Lift Bridge)
• Patrick White, Voss (Penguin, 2009).  Reprint of White's historical novel, tracking a nineteenth-century Australian explorer.  (Exam copy)
• Michael Sims, ed., The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime (Penguin, 2009).  A rather slim anthology of late-Victorian/20th-c. tales about crooks of all varieties.  (Exam copy)
• Barbara Hayley, Carleton's 'Traits and Stories' and the 19th-Century Anglo-Irish Tradition (Rowman & Littlefield, 1983).  Puts William Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry into their literary-historical context.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Margaret Keller and James H. Murphy, eds., Gender Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: Public and Private Spheres (Irish Academic P, 1997).  Collection of essays in a number of disciplines, including history, history of religion, literary criticism, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])