The Little ProfessorThings Victorian and academic.Whither Housman- June 12, 2008 I've been chewing over this Guardian blog post for a few days, ever since a family friend sent it on. In sum, the author, Alex Larman, finds that A. E. Housman has "fallen out of fashion," bemoans the lack of...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/whither-housman.html "...the composure, the fortitude, the resignation, and the religion, which marked his last moments"- June 11, 2008 Jonathan Rowe's post on the posthumous Christianizing (or make that orthodox-izing...) of George Washington reminded me of the early 19th-c. British equivalent: the posthumous, but not altogether successful, Christianizing of William Pitt the Younger. George Rose, whom I'm quoting in...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/the-composure-t.html Reading the Bible in The Monastery- June 8, 2008 Not in a monastery, but in Sir Walter Scott's The Monastery. Given its positively underwhelming critical reputation (beginning from its first publication--it wasn't one of Scott's bestsellers), I'm surprised by how not-bad the novel is. Granted, that's damning with faint...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/reading-the-bib.html Son of the further adventures in GoogleBooks (or, ILL vs. the Periodical of Doom)- June 7, 2008 One of the justifications for that infernal invention known as "snippet view" is that it allows researchers to identify a source and ILL it later. A relatively rare periodical, The Edinburgh Christian Instructor, happens to have a long book review...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/son-of-the-furt.html This Week's Acquisitions- June 6, 2008 (I did indeed go to the Strand while in NYC.) Stevie Davies, Four Dreamers and Emily (St. Martin's, 1997). Bronteites find themselves (and others) at a conference. (Amazon secondhand) Joyce Carol Oates, Wild Nights!: Stories About the Last Days of...http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2008/06/this-weeks-acqu.html |