This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Gavin McCrea, Mrs. Engels (Catapult, 2015). A historical novel about Lizzie Burns and her relationship with Frederick Engels. (Amazon)
- Rebecca Hunt, Everland (Europa, 2015). Shortly before WWI, three men take a trip to an arctic island that goes badly haywire. In 2013, three more people recreate the trip, with equally haywire results. (Amazon)
- Jon Mee, Conversable Worlds: Literature, Contention, & Community 1762 to 1830 (Oxford, 2011). The conversation as a genre in various literary and political contexts. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Linda Lewis, Dickens: His Parables and His Reader (Missouri, 2011). Analyzes Dickens' idiosyncratic understanding of religion and the work of his own novels by looking at his use of parable and allegory. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Teresa Michals, Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James (Cambridge, 2014). Examines how the distinction between "children's fiction" and "adult fiction" emerged, including how some authors have moved between classifications. (Amazon)
- Valerie Gray, Charles Knight: Educator, Publisher, Writer (Ashgate, 2006). Discusses Knight's work as a publisher of periodicals and "useful" literature. More about Knight here. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Lynn Zastoupil, Rammohun Roy and the Making of Victorian Britain (Palgrave, 2010). A study of the Indian reformer Rammohun (or Ram Mohan) Roy, who visited England during the early Victorian period. More here. (Amazon)
- Andrea Geddes Poole, Philanthropy and the Construction of Victorian Women's Citizenship: Lady Frederick Cavendish and Miss Emma Cons (Toronto, 2014). Argues that women's philanthropy became redefined as a political act during the second half of the nineteenth century.