This Week's Acquisitions

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Vintage, 1993). First volume in McCarthy's Border trilogy. (Lift Bridge)
Andrew Foster Altschul, Lady Lazarus (Harcourt, 2008). Trials and travails of a biographer in search of his subject. (eBay)
Jennifer Devere Brody, Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture (Duke, 1998). Constituting "the Victorian" through race and gender. (eBay; this & the next two books were part of a cheap bulk lot of Duke paperbacks)
Judith Halberstam, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters (Duke, 1995). Monstrous bodies in fiction and film. (eBay)
Bruce W. Robbins, The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below (Duke, 1993). The narrative functions of servants. (eBay)
The Home and Synagogue of the Modern Jew. Sketches of Modern Jewish Life and Ceremonies (RTS, n.d.). 19th-c. European Judaism from an evangelical Christian perspective.
Crawford Gribben and Timothy C. F. Stunt, eds., Prisoners of Hope?: Aspects of Evangelical Millennialism in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1880 (Wipf & Stock/Paternoster, 2007). Essay collection on the fortunes of various forms of millennialist thinking. (Amazon)