This Week's Acquisitions
- The Young Captives: A Historical Tale (P. J. Kenedy, 1882). Catholic historical novel about Augustine of Canterbury's mission to England in 597. (eBay)
- Mrs. [Mary Anne] J. Sadlier, trans., The Spanish Captives: A Tale of the Moorish Wars in Spain (Sadlier, 1861). Catholic historical novel about the rebellion in Granada at the end of the fifteenth century. (eBay)
- Evan Gottlieb, Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory (Bloomsbury, 2013). Reads Scott through several theorists (e.g., Butler, Foucault, Bhabha). I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance: Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2008). Updated version of Modleski's well-known critique of the romance genre, first published in 1982. (Amazon [secondhand])