This Week's Acquisitions

(Besides the table and the butler's chest...)

• John Rignall, George Eliot, European Novelist (Ashgate, 2011).  Studies Eliot in the context of her Continental contemporaries, arguing that her work has just as many important intersections with what's going on in French and German fiction as it does with its English counterparts.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
• Michael Brydon, The Evolving Reputation of Richard Hooker: An Examination of Critical Responses, 1600-1714 (Oxford, 2007).  Analyzes how Hooker got his reputation as one of the key thinkers of the early Church of England.  (Amazon [secondhand])