This Week's Acquisitions

Yikes!

• John Tulloch, Movements of Religious Thought in Britain During the Nineteenth Century (Scribner's, 1885). An important and still useful retrospective.

  
  

• John Banim, The Peep O'Day (Hurst, n.d.). Reprint of part of the Tales of the O'Hara Family. More on Banim here.

  
  

• Sarah Fielding, The History of Ophelia, ed. Peter Sabor (Broadview, 2004). Her last novel, featuring a young Welsh woman who finds herself in English high society.

  
  

• Paul Keen, ed., Revolutions in Romantic Literature: An Anthology of Print Culture 1780-1832 (Broadview, 2004). Essays, book reviews, some book excerpts and poetry, all organized according to special topics.

  
  

• Richard Todd and Luisa Flora, eds., Theme Parks, Rainforests and Sprouting Wastelands: European Essays on Theory and Performance in Contemporary British Fiction (Rodopi, 2000). Diski, Chatwin, Rushdie, Byatt, etc.

  
  

• Theo D'haen and Hans Bertens, eds., Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism (Rodopi, 1995). Carver, Wolf, LeGuin, Dick, etc.

  
  

• John Neubauer and Helga Geyer-Ryan, eds., Gendered Memories (Rodopi, 2000). Gender and historical memory in comparative perspective (American, Chinese, French, Brazilian, etc.). In English and French.

  
  

• Osman Durrani and Julian Preece, eds., Travellers in Time and Space: The German Historical Novel (Rodopi, 2001). Mostly emphasizes historical fiction from the twentieth century. In English and German.

  
  

• Gordon N. Ray, Thackeray, 2 vols. (McGraw-Hill, 1955-58). The standard biography. (For some reason, volume 2 tends to be a lot harder to find than volume 1.)

  
  

• Jack Kolb, ed., The Letters of Arthur Henry Hallam (Ohio, 1981). The man best known as the subject of Tennyson's In Memoriam.

  
  

• Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul (Norton, 2003). The late historian's last book, which traces theories of body-soul relationships from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

  
  

• Tim Chilcot, A Publisher and His Circle: The Life and Work of John Taylor, Keats' Publisher (RKP, 1972). Examines the history of the man behind Taylor & Hessey.

  
  

• Timothy Steele, Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter (Arkansas, 1990). Controversial study of the history of free verse.

  
  

• Mark Noll, David Bebbington, and George A. Rawlyk, eds., Evangelicalism: Comparative Studies of Popular Protestantism in North America, the British Isles, and Beyond, 1700-1990 (Oxford, 1994). An important collection of essays on topics such as George Whitefield, revivalism, modern fundamentalism, etc.

  
  

• John O. Waller, A Circle of Friends: The Tennysons and the Lushingtons of Park House (Ohio, 1986). Studies the relationship between Tennyson and his brother-in-law.

  
  

• Hoxie Neal Fairchild, Religious Trends in English Poetry: Volume IV: 1830-1880, Christianity and Romanticism in the Victorian Era (Columbia, 1957). Part of a massive study of Christianity's influence on all things poetic; the Brownings, the Rossettis, Swinburne, Clough, etc.

  
  

• James A. Davies, John Forster: A Literary Life (Barnes & Noble, 1983). The first modern biography of this well-known literary critic, most famous as a close friend of Dickens.

  
  

• John Dixon Hunt, Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture (MIT, 1994). Essays on landscape design, mostly English, mostly eighteenth century.

  
  

• Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang, Heaven: A History, 2nd ed. (Yale, 2001). Theories of Heaven from early Judaism to the present day.

  
  

• Beth Fowkes Tobin, Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (Duke, 1999). Examines such topics as portraits of colonial officials, the presence of black servants, representations of exotic plants, and so forth.

  
  

• Sue Vice, Holocaust Fiction (Routledge, 2000). Studies the reception history of selected Holocaust novels.

  
  

• Lydia Kokkola, Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature (Routledge, 2003). Examines the difficulties involved in creating Holocaust fiction for young audiences.

  
  

• Ernestine Schlant, The Language of Silence: West German Literature and the Holocaust (Routledge, 1999). Historical study that tracks how representations of the Holocaust have shifted in response to other cultural and political events.

  
  

• Cameron McFarlane, The Sodomite in Fiction & Satire 1660-1750 (Columbia, 1997). Sodomy as a figure for various other cultural and political issues; Smollett, poetry, etc.