This Week's Acquisitions
- Maria Louisa Charlesworth, Ministering Children and Sequel (Robert Carter and Brothers, 1872). Omnibus, deluxe US reprint of this ultra-popular pair of didactic novels about young children engaged in Christian witness, first published in 1854 and 1867. (AddAll)
- Thomas Leland, Longsword, Earl of Salisbury, ed. John C. Stephens (NYU, 1957). One of the two 20th-c. scholarly reprints of Leland's pioneering Gothic-cum-historical novel. (Which, somewhat bizarrely, I had to order from a US-based seller via the UK Amazon...) (Amazon UK [secondhand])
- Carolyn Williams, Gilbert and Sullivan: Gender, Genre, Parody (Columbia, 2010). Study of the operas' satirical techniques. (Review copy)
- Colette Colligan and Margaret Linley, eds., Media, Technology, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2011). Links technological innovations to literary forms and representational practices. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Elizabeth Fenton, Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Oxford, 2011). Issues having to do w/immigrants, nativism, racial politics, evangelicalism, etc. (Review copy)
- Ronald Florence, Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair of 1840 (Wisconsin, 2004). Concise account of the events that revived the blood libel's popularity in the nineteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Richard Brilliant, Portraiture (Reaktion, 2004). Theoretical analysis. (Greenwood Books)
- John Ruskin, The Lamp of Beauty, ed. Joan Evans (Phaidon, 1980). Reprint of a well-known 1959 anthology of Ruskin's art criticism. (Greenwood Books)