This Week's Acquisitions
- Joseph O'Connor, Ghost Light: A Novel (FSG, 2011). Molly, a broken-down former actress in 1950s London, reminisces about her love for the playwright J. M. Synge. (Barnes & Noble)
- Isobel Hurst, Victorian Women Writers and the Classics: The Feminine of Homer (OUP, 2008). How women writers studied, appropriated, and revised Greek and Roman literature. (eBay)
- Peter Melville Logan, Victorian Fetishism: Intellectuals and Primitives (SUNY, 2009). Emergence of the "fetish" in Victorian anthropological theory and its implications in other disciplines. (MLA)
- Carol Engelhardt Herringer, Victorians and the Virgin Mary: Religion and Gender in England 1830-1885 (Manchester, 2008). Debates over the Virgin's theological and social implications among Protestant, Anglo-Catholic, and Roman Catholic authors. (Amazon [secondhand])