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- Margaret Elphinstone, The Sea Road (Canongate, 2001). Viking woman treks to North America. (eBay)
- Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room (Canongate, 2003). Glasgow auctioneer finds troubling photographs. (eBay)
- The Union Review: A Magazine of Catholic Literature and Art (1875). This very decrepit volume appears to be incomplete--it only has selected articles on history and theology. (eBay)
- Murray Pittock, Scottish and Irish Romanticism (Oxford, 2008). A new literary history that examines the applicability of "Romantic" outside of England. (OUP)
- Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse, 1790-1910 (Oxford, 2008). A hefty literary history by one of the best-known specialists on Victorian poetry. (OUP)
- Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 (Oxford, 2008). Glass and the transformation of Victorian poetics, aesthetics, etc. (OUP)
- Jan Fergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 2007). Who read what where. (OUP)
- Robert MacFarlane, Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford, 2007). How original is that original in the window? (OUP)
- Thomas F. Bonnell, The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810 (Oxford, 2008). Controversies surrounding the new vogue for collected editions. (OUP)
- Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, 2008). National tales, historical fiction, Gothic, etc., etc., etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jason B. Jones, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Ohio, 2006). What did the Victorians make of historicist thinking? (Amazon [secondhand])
- Thomas Dixon, The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (Oxford, 2008). The nineteenth-century fate of "altruism," post-Comte. (OUP)
- James Pereiro, "Ethos" and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism (Oxford, 2008). Role of the concept of ethos in shaping Tractarian thought. (OUP)
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