This Week's Acquisitions
(I may have wandered by a few book exhibit tables at the MLA. *whistles innocently*)
- James Hogg, Winter Evening Tales, ed. Ian Duncan (Edinburgh, 2004). Short fiction in a variety of genres, originally published in 1820. (Freebie from those nice people at the Scottish Writing table)
- M. O. Grenby, The Child Reader, 1700-1840 (Cambridge, 2011). Empirical/quantitative study of children's reading, including distribution, ownership, purchasing patterns, and the like. (Cambridge UP)
- Brian Sudlow, Catholic Literature and Secularisation in France and England, 1880-1914 (Manchester, 2011). How Catholic authors responded to and combated the secularization process in order to assert their own place in late-19th c. culture. (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Barrett Kalter, Modern Antiques: The Material Past in England 1660-1780 (Bucknell, 2012). Medievalism, Gothic, collecting, etc. (UPNE)
- Stephanie Stidham Rogers, Inventing the Holy Land: American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865-1941 (Lexington, 2011). How they got there, what they saw, how they wrote about it, what it meant to American Protestant culture. (Rowman & Littlefield)
- Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn, Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). A substantial study of neo-Victorian fiction, film, and other media. (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Clare A. Simmons, Popular Medievalism in Romantic-Era Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). Gothic, legal systems, political satire, theater... (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Sue Zemka, Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society (Cambridge, 2012). The Victorian redefinition of temporality. (Cambridge UP)
- Stuart Kelly, Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented a Nation (Polygon, 2010). New biography of Scott and his role in shaping nineteenth-century Scottish nationalism. (Another freebie from the Scottish Writing folks)
- Donald Malcolm Reid, Whose Pharoahs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I (California, 2002). Going to Egypt, writing about Egypt, and then bringing stuff back from Egypt. (Donation from my father)
- Jason Thompson, Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle (Texas, 1992). Biography of England's first major Egyptologist. (Another paternal donation)