This Week's Acquisitions
- Benjamin Farjeon, Miriam Rozella (Collins, 1924). Reprint of Farjeon's 1898 novel (apparently in conjunction with a dramatization, if the photographs are any indication), about a young woman's eventually tragic experiences as she attempts to support herself. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Kate Southwood, Falling to Earth (Europa, 2013). The sole family left unscathed after a terrifying tornado finds itself increasingly alienated from the rest of the town. (Lift Bridge)
- Joyce Carol Oates, The Accursed (Ecco, 2013). Historical Gothic set in Princeton, featuring ghosts and various and sundry famous folk. (BOMC)
- Hilary Schor, Curious Subjects: Women and the Trials of Realism (OUP, 2013). Investigates relationship between the realistic mode, the "curious woman" (and curious objects), and the transformation of female subjectivity during the nineteenth century. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)