This Week's Acquisitions
- Gregory Maguire, After Alice (Morrow, 2015). In the 1860s, an unhappy young girl named Ada falls down a hole and chases after her friend, Alice Clowd. (Amazon)
- David Mitchell, Slade House (Random House, 2015). Every nine years, the Victorian Grayer twins have to absorb the soul of a telepath in order to retain their immortality. Eventually, things go a bit sideways. (Amazon)
- Otto Penzler, ed., The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Random House, 2015). Big (as it says) anthology of Holmes, neo-Holmes, parodied Holmes, Holmes knockoffs, etc. (Amazon)
- Desmond Shawe-Taylor, The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life (Royal Collection, 2009). Catalog and study of this popular early modern portrait genre, drawing on examples from across Europe. (U of Chicago Press)
- Nigel Aston, Art and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Reaktion, 2009). Relationship between art and everyday religious practice, including architecture, painting, sculpture, funerary monuments, etc. (U of Chicago Press)
- Nigel Llewellyn, The Art of Death (Reaktion, 1991). Early modern English funerary art, portraiture, jewelry, etc. and their cultural functions. (U of Chicago Press)