This Week's Acquisitions
- Mrs. O. F. Walton, The Mysterious House (RTS, n.d.). Late-Victorian religious novel about moving next door to what is rumored to be a "haunted house." Mrs. O. F. Walton was best known as the author of Christie's Old Organ and A Peep Behind the Scenes (an attack on using child actors). (eBay)
- Mrs. Mackarness, The Cloud with a Silver Lining and The Star in the Desert (John D. Williams, n.d.). US reprint of two novellas, the first about marriage, misunderstandings, and murder, the second about reconciliation between an estranged married couple. (eBay)
- Eva Konig, The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century Subject (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Studies how the figure of the orphan became a way of working through questions of subjectivity in early modern fiction. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Ann Wierda Rowland, Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture (Cambridge, 2012). Not about children's literature, but rather about how Romantic authors reinvented the concept of the child. (Scholars Choice)
- Srinivas Aravamudan, Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel (Chicago, 2011). Analyzes the oriental tale's intersections with the rise of eighteenth-century realism. (Scholars Choice)