Shiny Shoe Buckles
Saturday, March 24th, 2007In his review for Slate of Ben Wilson’s The Making of Victorian Values: Decency and Dissent in Britain: 1789-1837, Michael Chase-Levenson asks: Why are we still so obsessed with the Victorians?
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Read in 2008
- The Horned Man (R)
- Dictation (RR)
- The House of Sleep (NR)
- Yellow Dog (NR)
- Too Loud a Solitude (RR)
- The Face of Another (R)
- n+1 #7 (RR)
- In Praise of Shadows (RR)
- Unpacking the Boxes (RR)
- The Funeral Party (R)
- Netherland (NR)
- The Squabble+ (RR)
- Remainder (RR)
- Doctor Copernicus (RR)
- The Pathseeker (R)
- World Famous Love Acts (R)
- A Person of Interest (NR)
- After the Quake (RR)
- Boredom (RR)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog (RR)
- Eclipse (R)
- Tin House #37 (RR)
- When We Were Romans (NR)
- The Sound of the Mountain (R)
- In the Lake of the Woods (NR)
- Man in the Dark (RR)
- Trauma (NR)
- House of Meetings (R)
- A Gentleman’s Guide to Graceful Living (NR)
- Mr. Foreigner (RR)
- Atmospheric Disturbances (R)
- Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (RR)
- The Foreign Student (R)
- It’s All Right Now (NR)
- Breath (RR)
- We Always Treat Women Too Well (RR)
- Small Crimes in an Age of Abundance (R)
- Tin House #36 (R)
- Winter’s Bone (NR)
- A Spot of Bother (RR)
- Time Regained (R)
- Harry, Revised (RR)
- Black Swan Green (NR)
- After the Banquet (NR)
- The Age of American Unreason (R)
- Contempt (HR)
- The Old Capital (RR)
- Equal Danger (RR)
- Envy (HR)
- The Boat (R)
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics (NR)
- Thousand Cranes (R)
- The Diving Pool (RR)
- Pedro Paramo (RR)
- The Captive and The Fugitive (R)
- The Lying Tongue (NR)
- Blood Kin (NR)
- All the Sad Young Literary Men (RR)
- Beauty and Sadness (R)
- Tin House #35 (NR)
- Lost Men (RR)
- Six Records of a Floating Life (RR)
- Sodom and Gomorrah (RR)
- In Praise of Idleness+ (R)
- Kokoro (HR)
- Snow Country (R)
- Experience (R)
- Against the Machine (RR)
- n+1 #6 (R)
- Travels in the Scriptorium (RR)
- Birchwood (RR)
- The Actual (R)
- The Guermantes Way (RR)
- Things We Lose (HR)
- Why I Am Not a Christian+ (R)
- The Elephant Vanishes (R)
- The Unconsoled (RR)
- Laughter in the Dark+ (R)
- The Information (R)
- The Book of Illusions (RR)
- Black Rain (RR)
- The Heather Blazing (NR)