This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Susan Rivers, The Second Mrs. Hockaday (Alongonquin, 2017). An officer's adolescent wife, left alone while he fights in the Civil War, may have committed infanticide during his absence. (Lift Bridge)
- Jean Giono, Melville: A Novel, trans. Paul Eprile (NYRB, 2017). Reprint of Giono's 1941 novel (originally supposed to be the introduction to his translation of Moby-Dick) about, yes, Herman Melville. (Amazon)
- Margaret Laurence, The Diviners (Chicago, 1993). Reprint of Laurence's 1974 novel about a woman's quest for personal and artistic self-discovery in Canada. (Amazon)
- Stefanie Markovits, The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life (Oxford, 2017). Studies the form and history of the genre as practiced by the Brownings, Tennyson, Patmore, etc. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Dawn Coleman, Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel (Ohio, 2013). Role of sermon rhetoric and delivery in shaping nineteenth-century American fiction. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Fiona Price, Reinventing Liberty: Nation, Commerce and the Historical Novel from Walpole to Scott (Edinburgh, 2016). Re-examines the links between discourses of nationhood and the early historical novel, including novelists such as Walpole, the Porter sisters, Godwin, and, of course, Scott. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge, eds., Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature (Ashgate, 2014). Discusses topics such as book illustration, medievalism, empire, religion, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Paula McDowell, The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Chicago, 2017). How "oral tradition" as now understood developed via new forms of print during the eighteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Joseph Stubenrauch, The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain (Oxford, 2016). The relationship between the practice of evangelization and new forms of print, transportation, consumerism, etc. (Amazon)
- Hayden J. A. Bellenoit, Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 1860-1920 (Routledge, 2016). Reprint of Bellenoit's 2007 study of how missionaries and indigenous students interacted, ranging from questions of subject matter to points of resistance. (Amazon [secondhand])