This Week's Acquisitions

(More secondhand books from Cambridge, MA.  Also some review copies--I'm doing a big bibliographical review essay, so there will be free books wandering by from time to time.)

• Joanna Baillie, Six Gothic Dramas (Valancourt, 2007).  Anthology of Baillie's verse plays on various gruesome subjects.  (Amazon)
• Guy de Maupassant, Alien Hearts, tr. Richard Howard (NYRB, 2009).  Man seeks love with salonniere, fails.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• John Wyndham, The Chrysalids (NYRB, 2008).  Reprint of Wyndham's famous postapocalytofic; see this bibliography and brief overview for more information about the author.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• John William, Butcher's Crossing (NYRB, 2007).  In the late nineteenth century, men head out West for authentic experience, get rather more than they intended.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• William Attaway, Blood on the Forge (NYRB, 2005).  Reprint of the 1941 novel about three African-American men moving from South to North in search of work.  More about Attaway at Mississippi Writers & Musicians. (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• Gregor von Rezzori, Memoirs of an Anti-Semite: A Novel in Five Stories (NYRB, 2007).  A man's reminiscences trace the slow implosion of his own culture.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• Richard Hughes, In Hazard (NYRB, 2008).  Ship encounters a very, very nasty storm.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• Arthur Bradley and Andrew Tate, The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Religion after 9/11 (Continuum, 2010).  Short study of how Amis, McEwan, Pullman, and Rushdie engage with and articulate new atheism in their recent fiction.  (Review copy)
• Mark Knight, Introduction to Religion and Literature (Continuum, 2009).  What it says on the tin.  (Review copy)
• Adrian Grafe, ed., Ecstasy and Understanding: Religious Awareness in English Poetry from the Late Victorian to the Modern Period (Continuum, 2008).  Essays on Hopkins, Eliot, Auden, Hill, etc.  (Review copy)
• Jonathan Roberts, Blake.  Wordsworth.  Religion (Continuum, 2010).  An experimental book which is not well-described by its Amazon write-up, that's for sure.  (Review copy)
• Richard Griffith, The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature, 1850-2000 (Continuum, 2010).  Catholic writing (mainly fiction) since the mid-century "Second Spring."  (Review copy)
• W. J. McCormack, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Modern Irish Culture (Blackwell, 2002).  Also what it says on the tin.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• Martin Postle, Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity (Tate, 2005).  Written in conjunction with a Tate exhibition; more about Reynolds here and here.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)
• Colin Cruise, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites (Merrell, 2005).  Study of the Anglo-Jewish painter.  This is the standard online resource.  (Harvard Square Bookstore)