The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...actually, it's a lot of art history books from the UK.)

  • Pat Barker, Toby's Room (Anchor, 2012).  A young art student tries to understand why her brother disappeared during WWI. (Lift Bridge)
  • Anthony McCarten, Brilliance (Hawthorne, 2013).  The somewhat bizarre adventures of Thomas Edison, trying to make a buck.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Simonetta Agnello Hornby, The Nun, trans. Anthony Shugaar (Europa, 2012).  A young woman in nineteenth-century Italy finds herself torn between love and her (initially undesired) convent life.  (Skoob)
  • R. K. R. Thornton and Catherine Phillips, eds., The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins: Correspondence, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2013).  The opening salvos in a new standard edition of Hopkins' works, comprising letters from and to the poet.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
  • Paul Goldman, Beyond Decoration: The Illustrations of John Everett Millais (British Library, 2005).  Collection of all Millais' work as a book and magazine illustrator.  (Skoob)
  • Richard Ormond with Joseph Rishel and Robin Hamlyn, Sir Edwin Landseer (Philadelphia Museum of Art/Tate Gallery, 1981).  Catalog accompanying an exhibition of the painter's work.  (Skoob)
  • Patrick Noon, Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics (Tate, 2003).  Examines the mutual influence of nineteenth-century English and French painters.  (Skoob)
  • Michael Rosenthal, Constable: The Painter and His Landscape (Yale, 1983).  As the title suggests, a study of developments in Constable's approach to landscape painting over his career. (Skoob)
  • Teresa Newman and Ray Watkinson, Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle (Chatto & Windus, 1991).  General overview of the painter's career.  (Skoob)
  • [Jane] Christmas, ed., Blots on the Escutcheon of Rome: A Brief History of the Chief Papal Persecutions.  By Six Protestant Ladies (Wertheim and Macintosh, 1851).  Anti-Catholic history of the usual flash points (Waldenses, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, Inquisition, etc.).  Jane Christmas wrote a handful of children's novels and anti-Catholic tracts.  (eBay)
  • D. Dennis Hudson, Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835 (Eerdmans, 2000).  The influence of early German missionaries in India and their Tamil successors.  (Skoob)