The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Deborah Alcock, In the City: A Tale of Old France (Shaw, n.d.). Pre-Revolution France, with attendant religious and philosophical (eek! Voltaire!) conflicts.

  • Sara R. Horowitz, Voicing the Void: Muteness and Memory in Holocaust Fiction (SUNY, 1997). Another work on the role of silence (and overcoming silence) in Holocaust narrative.

  • Paul Eisenstein, Traumatic Encounters: Holocaust Representation and the Hegelian Subject (SUNY, 2003). Uses trauma as a means of thinking about problems of history and universality.

  • Raymond Chapman, The Sense of the Past in Victorian Literature (Croom Helm, 1986). Studies theories and practices of the Victorian historical imagination--historical fiction, religious and political discourse, etc.
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