This Week's Acquisitions
- Jane Harris, Gillespie and I: A Novel (Harper, 2012). Woman reminisces about her experiences with an (ultimately unsuccessful) artist and his family in late-Victorian Scotland. (Lift Bridge)
- Richard Maxwell, The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 (Cambridge, 2009). The late Maxwell's attempt to produce an alternative genealogy of the historical novel's emergence; I posted about it a couple of years ago. (Now would be a good time to thank CUP for having a "hardbacks for $20" sale.) (CUP)
- Heidi Kaufman, English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Reflections on a Nested Nation (Penn, 2009). Analyzes how British fiction approriates narratives and concepts from Judaism in order to think about the nature of Englishness; discusses both obvious novels (Tancred) and not-so-obvious novels (Middlemarch). (Amazon [secondhand])