This Week's Acquisitions
- Lynn Freed, The Servant's Quarters (Houghton Mifflin, 2009). After WWII, young Cressida and her family come to reside at George Harding's home, with unexpected results. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Wench (Amistad, 2011). Shortly before the outbreak of the Civil War, four enslaved women try to negotiate between family ties and the possibilities of rebellion and freedom. (Lift Bridge)
- James Hogg, A Queer Book (Edinburgh, 2007). Scholarly edition of Hogg's quirky poetry collection. (eBay)
- Ioan Williams, ed., Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Barnes & Noble, 1968). Big anthology of Scott's literary-critical writings. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Scott Black, Of Essays and Reading in Early Modern Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Studies the role of the essay in shaping eighteenth-century reading practices, and their ramifications for fiction. (eBay)
- Christine Bolus-Reichert, The Age of Eclecticism: Literature and Culture in Britain, 1815-1885 (Ohio, 2009). Analyzes the concept of the "eclectic" as it pertains to nineteenth-century aesthetics and cultural production. (eBay)
- Alan M. Kent, Pulp Methodism: The Lives and Literature of Silas, Joseph, and Salome Hocking, Three Cornish Novelists (Cornish Hillside, 2002). Study of three super-prolific pop novelists, who flourished at the turn of the century. (I own one of Joseph's novels.) (Amazon [secondhand])
- Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800-1900 (Cambridge, 2006). Uses Shakespeare as a test case to examine working-class education, literary, and reading habits. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Thomas Ford Caldicott, Hannah Corcoran: An Authentic Narrative of Her Conversion from Romanism (Gould and Lincon, 1853). Influential anti-Catholic conversion narrative by a Baptist preacher. Corcoran's purported abduction in early 1853 set off a riot in Charlestown. (eBay)