This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Robert Wilson Evans, The Rectory of Valehead (Smith, Elder, 1832). Popular early Victorian didactic novel detailing how to develop and maintain an authentically "Christian" household; remained in print into the 1850s. (eBay)
- Rachel Carroll, ed., Adaptation in Contemporary Culture: Textual Infidelities (Continuum, 2009). Collection devoted to theoretical problems in all sorts of adaptations (to stage, to film, to TV...). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Linda Hutcheon with Siobhan O'Flynn, A Theory of Adaptation, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2012). Revised edition of one of the more important theoretical accounts of adaptation. (Desk copy)
- Michael Slater, The Great Charles Dickens Scandal (Yale, 2012). The hullabaloo surrounding Dickens' relationship with Ellen Ternan. (Amazon [secondhand])