This Week's Acquisitions
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Hid in the Cevennes; Or, the Mountain Refuge (RTS, n.d.). Protestants flee into the mountains of nineteenth-century France in order to escape...Catholics?
- Barry Unsworth, Song of Kings (Norton, 2004). Revisionist take on Iphigenia at Aulis.
- Sarah Smith, Chasing Shakespeares (Washington Square, 2004). Graduate students seek the truth about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays.
- Clare Boylan, Emma Brown (Viking, 2004). Boylan finishes a fragmentary novel by Charlotte Bronte.
- Lindsay Clarke, The Chymical Wedding (Jonathan Cape, 1989). Parallel-plot historical novel involving alchemy, among other things.
- Benjamin Scott, The Contents and Teachings of the Catacombs at Rome..., 5th ed. (Morgan and Scott, n.d.). Famous series of lectures that used archaeological evidence to attack Roman Catholicism.
- Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Scrutinies: Reviews of Poetry 1830-1870 (Athlone, 1972). Studies the language and priorities of Victorian criticism.
- Terry Eagleton, Scholars & Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Blackwell, 1999). Irish novelists, cultural critics, historians, etc.--"intellectuals" as opposed to "academics."
- John D. Brewer with Gareth I. Higgins, Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600-1998: The Mote and the Beam (Macmillan, 1998). Sociological study examining anti-Catholicism's political and cultural functions.
- Sten Pultz Moslund, Making Use of History in New South African Fiction: Historical Perspectives in Three Post-Apartheid Novels (Museum Tusculanum, 2003). Mongane Serote, Mike Nicol, Zakes Mda.
- David Cowart, History and the Contemporary Novel (Southern Illinois, 1989). One of the earliest book-length attempts to link postmodernism and historical fiction.