This Week's Acquisitions
- John Harwood, The Ghost Writer (Harcourt, 2004). Just who is that mysterious lady in the photograph?
- Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones (Penguin, 1999). The horrors experienced by Haitians in the Dominican Republic during the rule of Rafael Trujillo.
- H. L. Malchow, Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Stanford, 1996). Gothic monstrosity and nascent classifications of race.
- Beth Newman, Subjects on Display: Psychoanalysis, Social Expectation, and Victorian Femininity (Ohio, 2004). Examines the phenomenon of "the retiring, self-effacing woman who is conspicuous by her inconspicuousness." I'm reviewing it for Choice.
- J. R. Watson, The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study (Oxford, 1999). Massive (500+ pages) study of the practice and aesthetics of hymnody.