This Week's (Actual) Acquisitions

E. L. Doctorow, All the Time in the World (Random House, 2011). Short story collection. (BOMC)
M. G. Wiebe et al., eds., Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1860-1864, vol. VIII (Toronto, 2009). The Disraeli Project inches closer to Disraeli's first run as Prime Minister. (I still haven't found an affordable copy of Vol. I, which is annoying.) (Amazon [secondhand])
F. Elizabeth Gray, Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry (Routledge, 2009). Includes such topics as reworkings of Biblical narratives about women, treatments of the Virgin Mary, devotional texts, and so forth. (Review copy)
Pallavi Pandit Laisram, Viewing the Islamic Orient: British Travel Writers of the Nineteenth Century (Routledge, 2006). Focuses on the responses of four major travel writers, including Alexander Kinglake (Eothen) and Gertrude Bell. (Review copy)
Bernhard Lang, Joseph in Egypt: A Cultural Icon from Grotius to Goethe (Yale, 2009). The Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment fate of the Biblical hero. (Review copy)
Christopher Rowland, Blake and the Bible (Yale, 2011). Blake's interpretation and reworking of Biblical narrative. (Review copy)