This Week's Acquisitions
- Mat Johnson, Pym: A Novel (Spiegel & Grau, 2011). Academic-social satire featuring an assistant professor of African-American studies who is obsessed with The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. (Amazon)
- Glenn Shuck, Marks of the Beast: The Left Behind Novels and the Struggle for Evangelical Identity (NYU, 2004). Study of the ramifications of the Left Behind series' success. (Review copy)
- Dana Luciano, Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU, 2007). Grief as a cultural mode. (Review copy)
- Sheila A. Spector, Byron and the Jews (Wayne State, 2010). Not Byron's representation of Jews, but the Jewish reception of Byron through the early twentieth century. (Review copy)
- Meri-Jane Rochelson, A Jew in the Public Arena: The Career of Israel Zangwill (Wayne State, 2010). A study of the best-known Jewish novelist in nineteenth-century Britain. (Review copy)
- Christopher Rowland, Blake and the Bible (Yale, 2011). Blake's interpretation of the Bible in its historical context. (Review copy)
- Desiree Henderson, Grief and Genre in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, 1790-1870 (Ashgate, 2011). Forms of writing about grief & their relationship to traditional religious genres. (Review copy)