This Week's Acquisitions

• Klaus Mann, Alexander, trans. David Carter (Hesperus, 2008).  Reprint of Mann's historical novel about Alexander the Great.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Hannah Tinti, The Good Thief (Dial, 2008).  Somewhat Oliver Twist-ish novel about an orphan-turned-pickpocket in the late 19th c.  (Lift Bridge)
• Yoon Sun Lee, Nationalism and Irony: Burke, Scott, Carlyle (Oxford, 2004).  Narratives of national unification, fictional and otherwise--in an ironic mode.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• David Peters Corbett and Laura Perry, eds., English Art 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity (Rutgers, 2001).  Problems of discussing "modernism" in relationship to Victorian and Edwardian art.  (eBay)
• Rafael Cardoso Denis and Colin Trodd, eds., Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (Rutgers, 2000).  Critical essays on the place of "academic" art in Europe.  (eBay)