This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- "Paul Peppergrass" (pseud. Father John Boyce), Shandy M'Guire: Or, Tricks upon Travellers. A Story of the North of Ireland (Noonan, 1879). Reprint of Boyce's 1853 novel about Ireland in the 1820s, focusing on the hypocrisies of the local Protestant gentry and clergy. (eBay)
- Sebastian Barry, Days without End: A Novel (Penguin, 2016). Part of Barry's ongoing saga of the McNulty family at various points in their history, here focusing on immigration to America after the Famine. (Amazon)
- Emma Donoghue, The Wonder (Back Bay, 2016). In Victorian Ireland, a nurse is shaken by the apparent miracle of a young girl's ability to survive without food. (Lift Bridge)
- Caroline Gonda, Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834: Novels and Society from Manley to Edgeworth (Cambridge, 1996). Analyzes relations between fathers and daughters as focused through the prism of novel reading. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Vincent L. Wimbush, White Men's Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery (Oxford, 2012). Uses the work of Olaudah Equiano to analyze how "the Bible and its reading played a crucial role in the first colonial contacts between black and white persons in the North Atlantic [...]" and, in turn, reshaped Christianity and the wider culture. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Berny Sebe, Heroic Imperialists in Africa: The Promotion of British and French Colonial Heroes, 1870-1939 (Manchester, 2013). Analyzes how late-Victorian media circulated narratives about figures like Kitchener as part of the process of shaping imperial ideology. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Dianne Lawrence, Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1910 (Manchester, 2012). How women attempted to transplant English middle-class cultural norms to imperial posts. (Amazon [secondhand])