This Week's (Somewhat Belated) Acquisitions
- G. E. Sargent, The Chronicles of an Old Manor House (RTS, n.d.). Historical novel about Protestant life under Henry VIII. Ex-libris of Albert Thomas Pile--possibly this artist? (Abebooks)
- Lubomír Doležel, Possible Worlds of Fiction and History: The Postmodern Stage (Johns Hopkins, 2010). Argues that we can, in fact, theorize a difference between fictional and historical narratives. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Brian Corman, Women Novelists Before Jane Austen (University of Toronto, 2009). A history of histories of the novel, addressing the exclusion of women novelists. (Scholar's Choice)
- Joanne Wilkes, Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Critical Reception of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot (Ashgate, 2010). Exactly what it says: the reviewing careers of writers like Mary Augusta Ward, Margaret Oliphant, Julia Kavanagh, etc. (Scholar's Choice)