This Week's Acquisitions
- Francine Prose, A Changed Man (Harper, 2006). Can a racist skinhead do good? (Lift Bridge)
- Ruth Mack, Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Stanford, 2008). Rethinking the distinction between fiction and historiography in 18th-c. prose. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- J. Jeffrey Franklin, The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire (Cornell, 2008). Analyzes the conflicted late-Victorian responses to Buddhism in various imperial contexts. I'm also reviewing this for Choice (cup, runneth, etc.). (Review copy)
- Robert Crawford, The Modern Poet: Poetry, Academia, and Knowledge Since the 1750s (Oxford, 2004). Interplay of poetic "careers," definitions of poetry, and different academic contexts. (eBay)