This Week's Acquisitions

(Lots of free stuff this week.)

• Hugo Grotius, The Free Sea (Liberty Fund, 2004). Reprints Grotius' essay on free navigation of the seas. Part of Liberty Fund's outstanding "Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics" series.

  
  

• Brian Hall, I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company (Viking, 2003). Historical novel about the Lewis and Clark expedition.

  
  

• Stewart O'Nan, A World Away (Holt, 1999). Familial angst during WWII.

  
  

• Joseph W. Reed, Jr., English Biography in the Early Nineteenth Century 1801-1838 (Yale, 1966). An important, succinct survey of life-writing trends during the Romantic and early Victorian periods.

  
  

• Gillian Darley, John Soane: An Accidental Romantic (Yale, 1999). Biography of the architect. His house is now Sir John Soane's Museum.

  
  

• Margaret Ziolkoswki, Literary Exorcisms of Stalinism: Russians Writers and the Soviet Past (Camden House, 1998). Solzhenitsyn, Bulgakov, Voinivich, etc.

  
  

• Sarah E. Gardner, Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 (North Carolina, 2004). Diaries, novels, histories and the Lost Cause.

  
  

• Michael Rothberg, Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation (Minnesota, 2000). Examines modernist, realist and postmodernist approaches.

  
  

• Stephen Frye, Historiography and Narrative Design in the American Romance: A Study of Four Authors (Mellen, 2001). Bakhtinian interpretation of Cooper, Simms, Child and Hawthorne.

  
  

• Gillian Banner, Holocaust Literature: Schulz, Levi, Spiegelman and the Memory of the Offence (Vallentine Mitchell, 2000). Problems of different kinds of memory in Holocaust literature.

  
  

• Rita B. Dandridge, Black Women's Activism: Reading African-American Women's Historical Romances (Peter Lang, 2004). Divides the subject up into the time periods represented (antebellum, postbellum, early twentieth century, etc.).

  
  

• Berel Lang, Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics (Johns Hopkins, 2000). Philosophical study of Holocaust fiction and film, with ramifications for historical fiction more generally.

  
  

• Caroline Wiedmer, Representations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany and France (Cornell, 1999). Political and ethical debates about Holocaust representation in the two countries, in arenas ranging from museums to films.

  
  

• Nana Wilson-Tagoe, Historical Thought and Literary Representation in West Indian Literature (Florida, 1998). Naipaul, Wolcott, Brathwaite, etc. and the weight of the past.