This Week's Acquisitions
(Après MLA, le déluge.)
- Marion Thain and Ana Parejo Vadillo, eds., Michael Field, The Poet (Broadview, 2009). Anthology of works by the late-Victorian poets known as "Michael Field"--in reality, Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper. (MLA)
- Cynric R. Williams, Hamel, the Obeah Man, ed. Candace Ward and Tim Watson (Broadview, 2010). Novel about, among other things, a slave rebellion in Jamaica. (MLA)
- Margaret Oliphant, Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago, ed. Anne M. Scriven (ASLS, 2010). First scholarly edition of one of Oliphant's few historical novels, this one following a young Scottish woman's successful decision to reject her father's demands, opting instead to make a life and career for herself in London. (MLA)
- Carol Margaret Davison, Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). The presence of and responses to Judaism in nineteenth-century Gothic. (Amazon [secondhand])
- April London, Literary History Writing, 1770-1820 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Emergence of literary history as a discipline and critical practice. (MLA)
- Juliet Shields, Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity, 1745-1820 (Cambridge, 2010). Problems of national identity after the Union. (MLA)
- Richard J. Hill, Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels (Ashgate, 2010). A history of the nineteenth-century illustrations. (MLA)
- Rebecca Styler, Literary Theology by Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Ashgate, 2010). Tracks women's popular theology across autobiography, fiction, poetry, and the like. (MLA)
- Avrom Fleishman, George Eliot's Intellectual Life (Cambridge, 2010). Development of Eliot's philosophy, scholarship, etc. and its influence on the novels. (MLA)
- Kate Mitchell, History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Relates the ascendancy of neo-Victorian historical fiction to contemporary intellectual trends. (MLA)
- Mary Mulvey-Roberts, ed., The Handbook of the Gothic (NYU, 2009). What it says in the title--a reference work on Gothic literature from the beginnings to the present. (MLA)
- Amanda Vickery, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale, 2010). Just what was it like to live in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century English homes? (MLA)