This Week's Acquisitions

• Charlotte Smith, The Works of Charlotte Smith, gen. ed. Stuart Curran, 5 vols. (Pickering & Chatto, 2005).  First five volumes in a new scholarly edition of Smith's works; includes The Romance of Real Life/Manon L'Escaut, Emmeline, Ethelinde, Desmond, and Celestina.  I'm reviewing it for Choice.  For more about Smith, visit A Charlotte Smith Page; some of her sonnets are here. 
• William Michael Rossetti, Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti, ed. Roger W. Peattie (Penn State UP, 1990).  A few hundred of Rossetti's letters on various and sundry topics.  There are brief discussions of W. M. Rossetti's life at the Centre for Whistler Studies and the Whitman Archive; the National Portrait Gallery has a sketch of him by D. G. Rossetti. 
• Robert Stewart, Henry Brougham: His Public Career, 1778-1868  (Bodley Head, 1986).  Biography of the influential politician, best-known for co-founding the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.  There's a late-Victorian account of his life at the Victorian Web. 
• Jennifer Green-Lewis, Framing the Victorians: Photography and the Culture of Realism (Cornell, 1997).  Photography and its emergence from/influence on nineteenth-century theories of realist representation.
• Alison Smith, The Victorian Nude : Sexuality, Morality, and Art (Manchester, 1997).  Emergence of the nude in Victorian painting and debates over its various manifestations (e.g., the male nude).