This Last Two Weeks' Acquisitions

• Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup (Penguin, 1989).  Reprint of Astley's 1974 historical novel about a late-Victorian Australian town called to face the facts of how it was founded.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Kate Atkinson, Transcription (Little Brown, 2018).  Atkinson (un)does Le Carre's spy thrillers, with a lowly secretary-turned-spy as the protagonist.  (Amazon)
• JoEllen DeLucia, A Feminine Enlightenment: British Women Writers and the Philosophy of Progress, 1759-1820 (Edinburgh, 2015).  The legacy of Scottish Enlightenment thinking for women poets, novelists, and philosophers.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Tamara S. Wagner, ed., Charlotte Yonge: Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction (Routledge, 2012).  Analyzes Yonge's practice of and influence on nineteenth-century religious fiction, including its commercial aspects.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Andrew Smith, Gothic Death, 1740-1914: A Literary History (Manchester, 2018).  The hows and whys of death in the Gothic, both in narrative form and cultural resonance (e.g., religious implications).  (Amazon)
• Robert M. Ryan, Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth (Oxford, 2016).  The influence of Wordsworthian nature on Darwin's work and, contrariwise, how Darwin's work later produced rereadings of Wordsworthian nature.  (Amazon)