Dr Clare Stainthorp Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Leverhulme ECR on Victorian freethought @QMULsed @C19QMUL ∣ Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ @BAVS_UK Newsletter Editor ∣ she/her

Anarchism Is Not Enough
Laura Riding
Laura Riding, on complicated problems. (from Anarchism is Not Enough, 1928) https://t.co/ps6N8Sz82N
Paperback, 2001
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Neomercantilists: A Global Intellectual History
Eric Helleiner
My review of the two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism has now been published in Global Intellectual History. It's an invaluable resource with an impressive scope, even if I was left wanting more on some fronts! https://t.co/rHM7696j5b
Hardcover, 2021
$52.95$27.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
A Romance of Two Worlds
Marie Corelli
Fab to be able to teach with Andrew Radford's EUP edition of Marie Corelli's A Romance of Two Worlds - great for teasing out the complexities of the reception of the novel and how 'The Electric Creed of Christianity' intersects with myriad C19 concerns about faith and identity.
Paperback, 2024
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spitalfields: The History of a Nation in a Handful of Streets
Dan Cruickshank
I've suggested that my 'Identity & Belief in Victorian Britain' students take this wonderful tour of Jewish life in late-Victorian London, whether virtually or by taking to the streets of Spitalfields - I highly recommend others do the same! https://t.co/SzxXFfZDJB https://t.co/D51ZYzK5Fc
Paperback, 2017
$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of Dreadful Night
James Thomson
Today we were thinking about Victorian atheism through the poetry of Constance Naden & James B.V. Thomson - truly running the gamut of attitudes towards life & death with 'The Pantheist's Song of Immortality' 🌄 & 'The City of Dreadful Night' 🌃
Paperback, 2001
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rosa Amorosa: The Love-letters Of A Woman
George Egerton
@CN_CSI Today's #19write is my conference paper on George Egerton's fascinating epistolary novel 'Rosa Amorosa' for @dr_r_fallon's upcoming conference on Nonfictional Fictions https://t.co/2y0F4723G4 https://t.co/gsuS6LqgJu
Paperback, 2022
$20.95$10.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Golden Threshold: in large print
Sarojini Naidu
Today we discussed the presentation of Sarojini Naidu as Hindu poet, both through her poetry in ‘The Golden Threshold’ and Arthur Symons’s exoticising introduction to it, as well as grappling with the relative lack of sources on C19 Hindus practicing their faith in Britain.
Hardcover, 2022
$52.90$27.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The City of Dreadful Night: in large print
James Thomson
Today we were thinking about Victorian atheism through the poetry of Constance Naden & James B.V. Thomson - truly running the gamut of attitudes towards life & death with 'The Pantheist's Song of Immortality' 🌄 & 'The City of Dreadful Night' 🌃
Paperback, 2022
$32.90$16.45 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Outcast
Winwood Reade
This week we were reading William Winwood Reade’s fascinating crisis of faith novel The Outcast. Had some brilliant discussions about the secular paradox at the heart of the protagonist’s rejection of dogma, embrace of Doubt & commitment to a ‘Religion of Unselfishness’.
Hardcover, 2016
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Outcast
William Winwood Reade
This week we were reading William Winwood Reade’s fascinating crisis of faith novel The Outcast. Had some brilliant discussions about the secular paradox at the heart of the protagonist’s rejection of dogma, embrace of Doubt & commitment to a ‘Religion of Unselfishness’.
Hardcover, 2022
$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book