The Little ProfessorThings Victorian and academic.Sequels, Victorian-style- June 24, 2008 "Christmas Eve" with the Spirits; Or, the Canon's Wanderings through Ways Unknown. With Some Further Tidings of Scrooge and Tiny Tim is one of the lesser (least)-known responses to, obviously, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's not a parody of...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/sequels-victori.html Department of slightly unusual acquisitions- June 21, 2008 ALS from the evangelical novelist Emily Sarah Holt to Mrs. Mackenzie, December 18, 1877. "My sister" is actually her sister-in-law, Anna; the brother in question is James Maden Holt, MP (PDF). Holt, who would have been forty-one when this letter...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/department-of-s.html This Week's Acquisitions- June 20, 2008 (But it's a substantial acquisition, at any rate.) Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. Compiled from Official Records & Other Authentic Documents, 8 vols. (George Bell, 1882). Complete set of a late-Victorian edition. Silently...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/this-weeks-ac-2.html Ask the LP- June 19, 2008 Postings have been mostly on the brief side recently, thanks to my epic struggles with Book Two, Chapter Three. After figuring out how to get three Methodists, three Catholics, two Anglo-Catholic clergymen, and a Whosits to coexist (albeit not peacefully)...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/ask-the-lp.html We're late, we're late, for a very important date- June 18, 2008 My editor at Choice posted a brief editorial about academics (and librarians) and their excuses for submitting late reviews. Ssssh! Don't tell the students that we do this too. Part of my job at Modern Philology involved tracking down wayward...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/were-late-were.html We interrupt this academic blog for a brief Star Trek comedy moment- June 16, 2008 It's been a very long time since I followed Star Trek doings with any attention--I pretty much jumped ship (or station) once DS9 ended--but this was a welcome distraction from the difficulty of sorting out Catholic, High Church, and whosits...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/we-interrupt-th.html Grandson of further adventures in GoogleBooks- June 15, 2008 This is, er, different. Although, looking on the bright side, it shows a certain creativity. Perhaps we should regard it in the light of conceptual art--"Victorian Textual Distortion 13," say. A suggestion to Google: please pay your employees more, or...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/grandson-of-fur.html Angelica- June 14, 2008 At some times, Arthur Phillips' neo-Victorian novel Angelica (2007) is full-blown Gothic; at others, it's a work of psychological realism. In the end, it turns out to be both and neither of the two. Since I'm going to have to...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/angelica.html Friday Cat Blogging- June 13, 2008 Nature abhors a vacuum. Cats abhor an empty shelf...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/friday-cat-blog.html This Week's Acquisitions- June 13, 2008 Gil Adamson, The Outlander (Ecco, 2008). In early twentieth-century Idaho, a desperate woman flees for safety after murdering her husband. (BOMC) R. M. Gilchrist, A Night on the Moor & Other Tales of Dread (Wordsworth, 2006). Reprints of Gilchrist's late-19thearly-20th...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/this-weeks-ac-1.html |