This Week's Acquisitions
- Lee Blessing, Fortinbras (Dramatists Play Service, 1992). At the end of Hamlet, everyone dies! And then, they keep talking. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ruth Fleischmann, Catholic Nationalism in the Irish Revival: A Study of Canon Sheehan, 1852-1913 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997). Analyzes the work of late-Victorian Catholic priest and novelist Patrick Augustine Sheehan, who linked Catholicism to various contemporary issues in Irish politics (land disputes, Home Rule, electoral reform, etc.). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Michael Rectenwald, Nineteenth-Century British Secularism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Argues for the centrality of George Holyoake to Victorian thought about the secular, including his influence on literary figures like Eliot. (Amazon)