This Week's (Extremely Belated) Acquisitions
- Mary Brunton, Self-Control, ed. Anthony Mandal (Pickering & Chatto, 2014). Scholarly edition of Brunton's bestselling novel from 1811 about a young evangelical woman's attempts to deal, among other things, with a dangerous suitor. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Hazel Gaynor, The Cottingley Secret (William Morrow, 2017). Historical novel about the Cottingley Fairies episode and its aftermath. (Lift Bridge)
- Coral Ann Howells, Paul Sharrad, and Gerry Turcotte, eds., The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 12: The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950 (Oxford, 2017). Newest entry in the OHNE, doing exactly what it says on the tin. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Patrick C. Fleming, The Legacy of the Moral Tale: Children's Literature and the English Novel, 1744-1859 (Tennessee, 2016). Argues that the narrative form of the moral tale strongly influenced the adult novels of later authors like Dickens. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John Price, Everyday Heroism: Victorian Constructions of the Heroic Civilian (Bloomsbury, 2014). How the Victorians made sense of the heroic outside of more familiar models (the Carlylean version, e.g.), including women's heroism. (Amazon [secondhand])