The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Charlotte Rogan, The Lifeboat (Little Brown, 2012).  In 1914, a woman goes on trial for the fallout of events after a ship shinks.  (BOMC)
  • Robert Lee Wolff, Gains and Losses: Novels of Faith and Doubt in Victorian England (Garland, 1977).  This is the big companion volume to Wolff's "Novels of Faith and Doubt" reprint series.  Thank goodness for library discards, as I've been searching for an affordable copy for eons (it usually retails at around $200 for a used copy).  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Jason David Hall, ed., Meter Matters: Verse Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century (Ohio, 2012).  Transformations in metrical theory and practice during the nineteenth century and their relation to other cultural phenomena.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
  • Leah Price, How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain (Princeton, 2012).  A study of how books came to be regarded as, in effect, precious objects with only one purpose.  (Review copy)
  • Joyce Sugg, Ever Yours Affly: John Henry Newman and His Female Circle (Gracewing, 1996).  An account of Newman's female correspondents and friends, including several Victorian authors like Lady Georgiana Fullerton.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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