This Week's Acquisitions

(Well, a couple of these were free, for various reasons.)

• Irene Nemirovsky, Fire in the Blood (Knopf, 2007).  Twenty years of love and angst in Burgundy.
• Kate Horsley, The Changeling: A Novel (Shambhala, 2005).  A girl raised as a boy in fourteenth-century Ireland seeks herself, among other quests. 
• ---, Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel (Shambhala, 2002).  A sixth-century Irish nun writes her memoirs.
• David Markson, Vanishing Point: A Novel (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2004).  The "Author" is writing...something.  Or is he?
• Millicent Dillon, A Version of Love: A Novel (Norton, 2003).  Love and psychoanalysis in the 1950s.
• Anne Enright, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel (Grove, 2004).  Nineteenth-century Irishwoman voyages to Paraguay, romances dictator.
• Andrea Barrett, The Air We Breathe: A Novel (Norton, 2007).  Sociocultural clash in upstate NY, right on the brink of WWI.
• Patrick R. O'Malley, Catholicism, Sexual Deviance, and Victorian Gothic Culture (Cambridge, 2006).  Gothic discourse and both Catholic and anti-Catholic rhetoric. 
• Andrew Lincoln, Walter Scott and Modernity (Edinburgh, 2006).  Revisionist interpretation of Scott's politics.  I'm reviewing this for Choice. 
• Lynette Felber, ed., Clio's Daughters: British Women Making History, 1790-1899 (Delaware, 2007).  Historical novelists, historians, biographers; includes an essay by yours truly.
• John N. King, Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs' and Early Modern Print Culture (Cambridge, 2006).  Production, consumption, dissemination.
• R. S. Sugirtharajah, The Bible and Empire: Postcolonial Explorations (Cambridge, 2005).  Biblical hermeneutics in an imperial context, looking at conflicts and appropriations in India and Africa.