This (Last Two) Week's Acquisitions
(Hmm. This "reduce the number of books" thing doesn't seem to be going quite as anticipated.)
- Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, ed. Meri-Jane Rochelson (Wayne State, UP, 1998). Scholarly edition of this classic work of Anglo-Jewish fiction, originally published in 1892. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Edith Johnstone, A Sunless Heart, ed. Constance Harsh (Broadview, 2008). First-ever reprint of this little-known Victorian novel--featuring copious quantities of illness, (unpleasant) sex, and death--which first appeared in 1894. (Borders)
- Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves (Vintage, 1997). Historical novel set in early Victorian Australia. An Englishwoman come to Australia finds herself shipwrecked, then taken captive. (Heartwood Books)
- Helen Dunmore, The Siege (Grove, 2002). Young woman finds love as she desperately tries to survive the Siege of Leningrad. (University of Virginia Bookstore)
- Ernst Weiss, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer, trans. Joel Rotenberg (Archipelago, 2010). First English translation of this 1931 Austrian novel, told by a decidedly untrustworthy (and, as the subtitle indicates, homicidal) narrator. (University of Virginia Bookstore)
- Peter K. Garrett, The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form (Yale, 1980). Bakhtinian approach to the most (in)famous of Victorian narrative forms. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Henry Adelbert White, Sir Walter Scott's Novels on the Stage (Archon, 1973). Chronicles the history of the theatrical adaptations. (Heartwood Books)
- Susan J. Wolfson, Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action (Johns Hopkins, 2010). Multiple forms of literary dialogue. (Review copy)
- The Christian Remembrancer, vols. X-XI (1845-46). Decidedly dilapidated volume of this Anglican journal. (eBay)
- John Wolffe, The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers, and Finney (IVP, 2007). Securing evangelicalism's reach, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Caitriona Clear, Nuns in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 1988). Nuns, religious houses, educational endeavors, etc. (Samovar Books)