This Week's Acquisitions

(Our campus bookstore had its quarterly-or-so shipment of remainders.)

• Christine Schutt, All Souls (Harcourt, 2008).  Angst at elite NY girl's school.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Jenny Davidson, Heredity (Soft Skull, 2003).  Twenty-first century American researcher concocts scheme to become impregnated by Jonathan Wild, which you'd think would be somewhat difficult.  (B&N)
• Annabel Davis-Goff, This Cold Country (Harvest, 2003).  Woman travels to decrepit Irish estate at dawn of WWII.  (B&N)
• Arnold Bennett, Whom God Hath Joined (Sutton, 1985).  Reprint of Bennett's novel about marital shenanigans in the early twentieth century.  (B&N)
• Peter Rushforth, Pinkerton's Sister (Harvest, 2006).  In NY, circa 1903, an unhappy young woman does a lot of reading.  (B&N)
• P. D. James, The Children of Men (Vintage, 2006).  Dystopian novel about a twenty-first century Earth that has no more children...  (eBay)
• Sally Mitchell, The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class, and Women's Reading, 1835-1880 (Bowling Green, 1981).  Important study of attitudes to gender, social status, and literary consumption.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• John Corrigan, Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century (U of California, 2001).  Study of mid-19th c. American revivalism.  (B&N)