This Week's Acquisitions
- The Village in the Mountains, The Conversion of Peter Bayssiere, and History of a Bible (American Tract Society, n.d.). Three repurposed tracts of various sorts, including a Bible it-narrative. (eBay)
- Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman: A Novel (Ecco, 2012). A woman left to die as an infant grows up to head a major university, but still needs to come to grips with her past. (BOMC)
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, A Good Man (Atlantic Monthly, 2012). Is hard to find, one presumes. Third novel of Vanderhaeghe's revisionist Western trilogy (The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing), featuring a postbellum Canadian expat who finds himself in the midst of war with Native Americans. (Amazon)
- Kate Williams, The Pleasures of Men (Penguin, 2012). Neo-Victorian novel about a young woman increasingly fascinated by a serial killer. (I seem to have gone in for incredibly cheerful and upbeat novels this week.) (Amazon)
- John Kucich, ed., The Oxford History of the Novel: Vol. 3, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880 (Oxford, 2012). What the title says: major genres, authors, themes, etc. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Fiona MacCarthy, Edward Burne-Jones: The Last Pre-Raphaelite and the Victorian Imagination (Harvard, 2012). New biography of one of the Pre-Raphaelite movement's most popular painters; for examples of his work, see here. (Amazon)
- Chris Brooks, ed., The Albert Memorial (Yale, 2000). A rather unusually-shaped book about one of the nineteenth century's biggest memorial projects; includes discussions of architecture, ornamentation, sculptures, and so forth. For some reason, knocked down to about $6 on Amazon when I bought it. (Amazon)