This Week's Acquisitions
I'm at NAVSA! There are heavily-discounted books at NAVSA! (Including an bound advance proof of Book Two.) It is possible, nay probable, that I may have acquired some books while at NAVSA!
- Richard Salmon, The Formation of the Victorian LIterary Profession (Cambridge, 2013). New addition to the literature on Victorian professionalization, focusing on the reconceptualization of "the author" in the early Victorian period and linking it to concrete literary practices. (Cambridge)
- Ilana Blumberg, VIctorian Sacrifice: Ethics and Economics in Mid-Century Novels (Ohio, 2013). Re-examines the theological discourse of self-sacrifice in relationship to competing economic models of behavior. (Ohio State UP)
- Marie-Louise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben, eds., Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence, and Degeneracy in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century (Rodopi, 2012). Essay collection on neo-Victorian horrors (sensationalism, ghosts, ghouls, vampires, assorted undead, etc.). (Scholar's Choice)
- Ted Underwood, Why Literary Periods Mattered: Historical Contrast and the Prestige of English Studies (Stanford, 2013). History of how "the period" emerged as a unit of study and teaching in the English profession. (Scholar's Choice)