This Week's Acquisitions
- Robert Pollok, Helen of the Glen (Robert Carter, 1841). Two Covenanter orphans grow up and face various temptations, until the sister (of course) manages to bring her brother back to the right path on her deathbed. (eBay)
- Gabriele d'Annunzio, Pleasure, trans. Lara Gochin Raffaelli (Penguin, 2013). New translation of d'Annunzio's 1898 novel, following the decadent adventures of a womanizing Italian aristocrat. (Amazon)
- Dominique Fortier, On the Proper Use of Stars, trans. Sheila Fischman (Emblem, 2008). Historical novel about the doomed Franklin expedition, moving back and forth between Sir John Franklin's experiences and his wife's. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Diane Hoeveler and Deborah Morse, eds., A Companion to the Brontes (Blackwell, 2016). A...companion to the Brontes, in which I have an essay. (Contributor's copy)
- Richard Griffiths, The Reactionary Revolution: The Catholic Revival in French Literature, 1870-1914 (Constable, 1966). Study of the development of a self-consciously elite Catholic literary culture in late nineteenth-century France. (Amazon [secondhand])
- M. J. D. Roberts, Making English Morals: Voluntary Association and Moral Reform in England, 1787-1886 (Cambridge, 2004). Various approaches to social reform, including temperance societies, associations against animal cruelty, etc. (Amazon)