Notes from the slippery slope
Feb. 20th, 2010 12:38![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyDamn it, when I said just last Monday that "the C19th and the Victorian Age have never really been my thing", I did not mean by that to goad the universe into having my reading list start tossing out awesome-sounding books about the period like it was going out of style.
Viaoursin, the saga of the arsenical 19th century, in which the Victorians poisoned themselves and each other both consciously and unconsciously. As soon as the review mentioned that the poison murder trials were a proxy for talking about things the Victorians didn't talk about (as one would imagine), I was hooked.
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zahrawithaz mentioned the other day that the Princeton University Press is having an amazing book sale. It is; there's an amazing wealth of literature (Blake's illustrated volumes! Chapman's Homer! C12th Spanish Jewish poetry in translation!), literary studies, Judaism studies, Asian studies, and many, many other titles from lots of different fields. But this book on dandyism has my name on it, I think. Damn it, Holmes!
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oursin, the saga of the arsenical 19th century, in which the Victorians poisoned themselves and each other both consciously and unconsciously. As soon as the review mentioned that the poison murder trials were a proxy for talking about things the Victorians didn't talk about (as one would imagine), I was hooked. zahrawithaz mentioned the other day that the Princeton University Press is having an amazing book sale. It is; there's an amazing wealth of literature (Blake's illustrated volumes! Chapman's Homer! C12th Spanish Jewish poetry in translation!), literary studies, Judaism studies, Asian studies, and many, many other titles from lots of different fields. But this book on dandyism has my name on it, I think. Damn it, Holmes!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2010-02-20 20:39 (UTC)(Luckily, my bank cancelled my credit card because of fraud, and I don't have the new one yet, so I can't spend anything til I do. Probably for the best, really.)
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Date: 2010-02-20 20:39 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2010-02-20 22:15 (UTC)Not a Victorianist either, but...
Date: 2010-02-20 18:46 (UTC)Re: Not a Victorianist either, but...
Date: 2010-02-20 20:01 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 19:33 (UTC)That arsenic book sounds really interesting.
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Date: 2010-02-20 20:01 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 19:36 (UTC)I hate having no liquid funds... :(
Have fun with all the books :D
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Date: 2010-02-20 20:00 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 20:50 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-20 21:21 (UTC)I've considered going to protected updates. I dunno.
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Date: 2010-02-21 22:43 (UTC)But oh hey, we'll be on the same PCA panel this year! (And so will Alex.)
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Date: 2010-02-22 02:40 (UTC)I don't think Alex will be there though, he's going to Anime Boston that same weekend. So it will be the three of us.