This Week's Acquisitions
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What is Romanism? (SPCK, 1849). The seventeenth in a series of anti-Catholic tracts, this one devoted to idolatry.
- John MacLachlan Gray, The Fiend in Human (St. Martin's, 2003). Neo-Victorian thriller about a serial killer in 1850s London.
- "Leonie Hargrave," Clara Reeve (Knopf, 1975). Another neo-Victorian novel set in the 1850s. "Leonie Hargrave" is actually Thomas M. Disch.
- Anthony O'Neill, The Lamplighter (Scribner, 2003). Yet another neo-Victorian novel, this time set in Edinburgh.
- Monique Truong, The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). The Gertrude Stein/Alice B. Toklas household, reimagined from the point of view of their Vietnamese cook.
- Santiago Juan-Navarro, Archival Reflections: Postmodern Fiction of the Americas (Self-Reflexivity, Historical Revisionism, Utopia) (Bucknell, 2000). Postmodern historical fiction in both North and South America.
- Maria Ornella Marotti and Gabriella Brooke, Gendering Italian Fiction: Feminist Revisions of Italian History (Delaware, 1999). The role of women's historical novels in shaping Italian historiography.
- Laura C. Berry, The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel (Virginia, 1999). The cultural function of stories about endangered children.
- John F. Keener, Biography and the Postmodern Historical Novel (Edwin Mellen, 2001). Historical fiction and narrative constructions of identity.
- Benjamin S. Lawson, Rereading the Revolution: The Turn-of-the-Century American Revolutionary War Novel (Popular Press, 2000). Studies approximately fifty novels published between 1896 and 1906.
- Vandelia L. VanMeter, America in Historical Fiction: A Bibliographic Guide (Libraries Unlimited, 1997). Over 1100 novels.