(Did I mention that I went to Powell's when I was in Chicago? Ssshh! Don't tell my parents.)
- William Clarke, Three Courses and a Dessert (Nonsuch, 2005). Reprint of an 1830 collection of short stories, illustrated by George Cruikshank. It's now better known for the illustrations than the stories. (Powell's)
- Robert S. Surtees, Ask Mamma: Or the Richest Commoner in England (Nonsuch, 2005). Reprint of Surtees' social satire, set among the rural hunting crowd. Illustrated by John Leech. (Powell's)
- Francine Prose, Judah the Pious (Macmillan, 1986). Prose's first novel--a neo-Rabbinical tale of sorts. (Powell's)
- Cynthia Ozick, Trust (Mariner, 2004). Reprint of Ozick's first novel, featuring a young woman in search of her long-lost father. (Powell's)
- Vic Gatrell, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (Walker, 2006). Hefty study of eighteenth-century satirical culture, including artists like James Gillray. (Powell's)
- Maureen N. McLane, Romanticism and the Human Sciences (Cambridge, 2006). Literature and the "new" sciences of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, including the study of populations (Malthus, etc.). (Powell's)
- Rosemarie Bodenheimer, Knowing Dickens (Cornell, 2007). Dickensian epistemology, as it were. (Powell's)
- Isabel Rivers, ed., Books and Their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Continuum, 2003). Essays in book history. (Powell's)
- Lucy Bending, The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Oxford, 2000). Hellfire, vivisection, etc. (Powell's)
- Hughes Oliphant Old, The Age of the Reformation (Eerdmans, 2002). One volume of Olds' history of preaching. (eBay)
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