The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House, 2009).  In 1974, a high-wire performance frames the stories of several New Yorkers.  (BOMC)
  • Jerome de Groot, The Historical Novel (Routledge, 2009).  Part of the "New Critical Idiom" series.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Blakey Vermeule, Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? (Johns Hopkins, 2009).  Analyzes how and why readers are drawn into fictional lives, using both traditional and more recent analytical methods (including cognitive approaches).  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
  • Alessandra di Luzio, ed., The Grand Tour Lives On (CLUEB, 2006).  Literary, historical, and art-historical studies of post-Grand Tour travels and responses to (primarily) Italy.  (Addall)
  • Leslie Howsam, Past into Print: The Publishing of History in Britain, 1850-1950 (U of Toronto, 2009).  History's markets and the marketing thereto.  (Amazon [secondhand]) 
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