The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Emily Sarah Holt, Under One Sceptre, or Mortimer's Mission: The Story of the Lord of the Marches (John F. Shaw, n.d.).  Historical novel about Sir Roger Mortimer, the man who deposed Edward II.  (AddAll)
  • Richard Powers, Generosity: An Enhancement (Picador, 2010).  Scientist probes the mystery of one young woman's permanently upbeat state.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Picador, 2003).  Woman breaks down while in Saudi Arabia.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Mario Ortiz Robles, The Novel as Event (Michigan, 2010).  Performativity, narrative, and "interruption" in Victorian fiction.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
  • Miles Taylor and Michael Wolff, eds., The Victorians Since 1901: Histories, Representations, and Revisions (Manchester, 2004).  Essays on films, the state of scholarship, historiography, etc.  (eBay)
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