This Week's Acquisitions
(The rest of the loot from my NYC trip arrived.)
- Jacob Gordin, The Jewish King Lear: A Comedy in America, trans. Ruth Gay (Yale, 2007). Reworking of Shakespeare (rather more upbeat than the original, as the subtitle indicates) by a leading figure in late-19th c. Yiddish theater. (Book Culture)
- Peter A. Moore, ed., Before Burns: Eighteenth-Century Scottish Poetry (Canongate, 2002). As the title says. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Patrick Parrinder, Nation and Novel: The English Novel from Its Origins to the Present Day (Oxford, 2008). A literary history emphasizing the reciprocal influences of nationalism and the emerging English novel. (Book Culture)
- Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature (Yale, 2000). Interdisciplinary study of the Western obsession with the inaccessible harem. (Book Culture)
- N. John Hall, Max Beerbohm: A Kind of Life (Yale, 2002). A brief biography of the caricaturist/novelist (Zuleika Dobson)/essayist. See the Victorian Web for more information about Beerbohm. (Book Culture)
- Maryan W. Ainsworth and Keith Christiansen, eds., From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met, 1998). Essays and catalog, originally developed for this exhibition. (Book Culture)
- Jeanne Halgren Kilde, Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship (Oxford, 2008). Examines how different forms of church architecture enabled certain types of worship, relations among pastors and people, etc. (Book Culture)
- Chantal Thomas, The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie Antoinette, trans. Julie Rose (Zone, 2001). A study of how Marie Antoinette was demonized around the time of the French Revolution. (Book Culture)
- Lucy Riall, Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (Yale, 2008). A biography emphasizing the development of Garibaldi's reputation as national cult figure. (Book Culture)
- Stuart McLean, The Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity (Stanford, 2004). Analyzing the historiography and cultural influence of the Irish Famine. (Book Culture)