This Week's Acquisitions
- George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo (Random House, 2017). Lincoln amidst ghosts while he visits his deceased son Willie in the crypt. (Lift Bridge)
- Jim Kelly, Charles Maturin: Authorship, Authenticity and the Nation (Four Courts, 2011). Analyzes Maturin's work in terms of an new understanding of "national literature" during the Romantic period. (Amazon)
- John Coffey, ed., Heart Religion: Evangelical Piety in England and Ireland, 1690-1850 (Oxford, 2016). Analyzes the role of "the heart"--e.g., conversion, affect--in early evangelical discourse, such as conversion narratives, sermons, dream visions, Methodism, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])