The Little Professor

This Week's Month's Acquisitions

(Look what was waiting for me when I got back...)

  • Lewis De Lew, Ben-Onie.  Episodes from the Journal of an Israelite, Converted to Christianity (George Lycett, 1887).  Despite the testimonials at the back, this appears to be yet another Jewish conversion novel (like Leila Ada).  The title character eventually treks from England to the USA and becomes a minister.  (eBay)
  • Brian Moore, The Mangan Inheritance (NYRB, 2011).  Reprint of Moore's novel about a young man who becomes convinced that he has some sort of connection to the minor poet James Clarence Mangan.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Jacqueline S. Bratton, The Impact of Victorian Children's Fiction (Barnes & Noble, 1982).  An important study of reception, genres, publishers, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Matthew Kaiser, The World in Play: Portraits of a Victorian Concept (Stanford, 2011).  How people made sense of the rapid shifts in Victorian culture.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
  • Michael Alexander, Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England (Yale, 2007).   The fad for all things medieval in art, architecture, poetry, fiction, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Emma Major, Madam Britannia: Women, Church, and Nation, 1712-1812 (OUP, 2012).  "Britannia" as a gendered and Protestantized symbol.  (OUP)
  • Richard J. Schiefman, Nicholas Wiseman and the Transformation of English Catholicism (Patmos, 1984).  Studies how Wiseman attempted to move English Catholicism in a more "European" direction, among other things.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • John Cornwell, Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint (Continuum, 2011).  Brief biography of Newman, who was beatified in 2010.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Eamon Duffy, ed., J. A. Froude's Mary Tudor (Continuum, 2010).  Unannotated (!) excerpts  from Froude's History of England, with intro by Duffy.   (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Duncan Forbes, The Liberal Anglican Idea of History (Cambridge, 2006).  Reprint of Forbes' classic study of figures like Thomas Arnold and their approach to Christian historical narrative.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Angus Vine, In Defiance of Time: Antiquarian Writing in Early Modern England (OUP, 2010).  Humanist beginnings of antiquarian scholarship.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Stephen Bann, The Clothing of Clio: A Study of the Representation of History in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France (CUP, 2011).  Reprint of Bann's important study of 19th-c. historiography, fiction, and art history.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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