This Week's Acquisitions
- J. M. Neale, Theodora Phranza, or the Fall of Constantinople (Masters, 1857). Religious (High Church) historical novel set in the fifteenth century during the Ottoman invasion of Constantinople. More about Neale here. (eBay)
- Edward Monro, Harry and Archie; Or, First and Last Communion (Masters, n.d.). The friendship of two boys from their Confirmation through various temptations, Archie's enlistment, and their eventual deaths. (eBay)
- J. L. Nye, ed., Stories for the Band of Hope (Sunday School Union, n.d.). A collection of short moral narratives on the temperance theme. More on the Band of Hope (parodied by Dickens in Bleak House) here.
- Daniel Wright, Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel (Johns Hopkins, 2018). Analyzes how Victorian characters think about romantic and sexual desire, and the implications for our understanding of sexuality in Victorian literature. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)