The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • "Sister Agatha," The Confessions of a Nun (Jordan Bros., 1891).  Late nineteenth-century anti-Catholic screed, in the vein of Maria Monk et al.  (eBay)
  • Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel (Harper, 2012).  An Appalachian woman must deal with the fallout after she experiences a strange vision.  (BOMC)
  • Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth (Talese, 2012).  A brilliant young woman joins MI5 and finds things not turning out quite as she expected.  (BOMC)
  • Adam McOmber, The White Forest (Touchstone, 2012).  Neo-Victorian-cum-Gothic-cum-fantasy novel involving weird societies, supernatural abilities, and, of all people, Vidocq.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Alan Nielsen, The Great Victorian Sacrilege: Preachers, Politics, and The Passion, 1879-1884 (McFarland, 1991).  A history of American Protestant reactions (negative) to the production of a modern Passion play.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Marianne Thormahlen, ed., The Brontes in Context (Cambridge, 2012).  Forty-two essays on all aspects of the Brontes in relation to history, reception, etc.; includes an essay by yours truly on the mid-Victorian reception history of the sisters.  (Author copy)
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