This Week's Acquisitions
- Barbara Hofland, Emily's Reward; Or, the Holiday Trip to Paris (Grant and Griffith, 1844). A didactic travelogue for children in fictional form, following Emily and her family to the sights of Paris and its surroundings. (eBay)
- Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England (Princeton, 2007). Analyzes the relationship between the Victorian understanding of women's friendships and different theories of marriage (the marriage plot, anthropology, etc.). (Amazon)
- Andrzej Olechnowicz, ed., The Monarch and the British Nation: 1780 to the Present (Cambridge, 2007). Political theories, gender issues, popular culture, etc. (Amazon)
- Maria Luddy, Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (Cambridge, 2007). Political and religious responses, nationalist theories about prostitution's origins, various forms of activism, the medical establishment, and so forth. (Amazon)