The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(I did mention that I encountered some secondhand bookstores in Madison, WI.)

  • Mrs. Humphry Ward, The Marriage of William Ashe (Harper & Brothers, 1905).  Bestselling novel about the title character's unsuccessful relationship with the aristocratic and unfaithful Lady Kitty; later adapted for Broadway and film.  (Browzer's Books)
  • ---, Eleanor (Harper & Brothers, 1900).  A young woman undergoes spiritual and romantic torments during a long stay in Rome.  (Browzer's Books)
  • Edmund Farrenc, Carlotina and the Sanfedesti: Or, a Night with the Jesuits at Rome (John S. Taylor, 1853).  Anti-Catholic novel set in Italy during the early phases of the struggle for national unification.  (eBay)
  • Richard Beard, Lazarus is Dead (Europa, 2012).  Revisionist novel about what happened between Jesus and Lazarus, and its effects on the latter in particular. (Lift Bridge)
  • Amanda Prantera, Conversations with Lord Byron on Perversion, 163 Years after His Lordship's Death (Atheneum, 1987).  A young scholar finds herself increasingly fascinated by a computerized reconstruction of Byron.  (Browzer's Books)
  • W. R. Greg, The Creed of Christendom, 2 vols., 8th ed. (Trubner, 1883).  Popular critique (and dismissal) of orthodox Christianity.  Greg is better known now as the author of "Why are Women Redundant?"
  • Jeffrey Cox, The English Churches in a Secular Society: Lambeth, 1870-1930 (Oxford, 1982).  Uses Lambeth to examine what happened to Protestant influence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  (Browzer's Books)
  • Alon Kadish, Apostle Arnold: The Life and Death of Arnold Toynbee 1852-1883 (Duke, 1986).  Biographical study of the influential (albert short-lived) Victorian economist.  (Browzer's Books)
  • John Gloag, Victorian Comfort: A Social History of Design 1830-1900 (St. Martin's, 1973).  Comfort in all sorts of settings, whether at home or on the road.  (Browzer's Books)
  • Ann Rigney, The Afterlives of Walter Scott: Memory on the Move (Oxford, 2012).  Scott's cultural resonance through the nineteenth century, in such forms as tourism, drama, "pilgrimages," etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Laura Dabundo, The Marriage of Faith: Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth (Mercer, 2012).  Religion as a mode of community-building in the two authors.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
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