This Week's Acquisitions
- Klaus Mann, Alexander, trans. David Carter (Hesperus, 2008). Reprint of Mann's historical novel about Alexander the Great. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief (Dial, 2008). Somewhat Oliver Twist-ish novel about an orphan-turned-pickpocket in the late 19th c. (Lift Bridge)
- Yoon Sun Lee, Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle (Oxford, 2004). Narratives of national unification, fictional and otherwise--in an ironic mode. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David Peters Corbett and Laura Perry, eds., English Art 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity (Rutgers, 2001). Problems of discussing "modernism" in relationship to Victorian and Edwardian art. (eBay)
- Rafael Cardoso Denis and Colin Trodd, eds., Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (Rutgers, 2000). Critical essays on the place of "academic" art in Europe. (eBay)