This Week's Acquisitions
- F. M. Mayor, The Rector's Daughter (Virago, 1987). Reprint of Mayor's 1924 novel about a woman who has grown up in a constrained, barely post-Victorian clergyman's household.
- Eliot Bliss, Saraband (Virago, 1987). Reprint of early 1930s novel about a young woman's coming-of-age.
- Agnes M. Stewart, Earl Nugent's Daughter; Or The Last Days Of The Penal Laws: A True Story (Kessinger, 2007). POD reprint of a Victorian Catholic historical novel set during the Gordon Riots (cf. Charles Dickens' Barnaby Rudge).
- Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Vintage, 1994). Beauty, obsession, and disappointment in Japan, based loosely on a real incident.
- Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club (Vintage, 2003). Trials and travails of growing up in 70s Birmingham.
- James Buzard, Disorienting Fiction: The Autoethnographic Work of Nineteenth-Century British Novels (Princeton, 2005). Classic British fiction as ethnographies of Englishness.
- Catherine Gallagher, The Body Economic: Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel (Princeton, 2005). Languages of economics, languages of fiction.