This Week's Acquisitions

Anna Kerchy, Alice in Transmedia Wonderland: Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic (McFarland, 2016). Analyzes contemporary reworkings and remixings of Alice in their relationship to different media (electronic text, theater, artwork, etc.). (Amazon [secondhand])
Tricia Lootens, The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres (Princeton, 2016). The figure of the Anglo-American "Poetess," customarily detached from politics, and its implications for women's writing. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)