This Last Two Weeks' Acquisitions (Victorian edition)

(There was a bit of a deluge chez LP's mailbox, thanks to the ongoing bibliographical essay.  These are just the Victorian-related works that appeared.)

• Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar, ed. Anne-Marie Beller (Victorian Secrets, 2010).  Reprint of Braddon's anti-death penalty novel, first published in 1864.  (Amazon)
• Andrew Maunder, ed., Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890 (Pickering & Chatto, 2004).  Scholarly edition of novels by Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Mary Cecil Hay, Florence Marryat, Dora Russell, Felicia Skene, and Ellen Wood, plus a volume of critical responses.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Mark Knight and Emma Mason, Nineteenth-Century Literature and Religion: An Introduction (Oxford, 2007).  What it says on the tin: covers major religious disputes/topics & their ramifications for contemporary literature.  (Review copy)
• Eitan Bar-Yosef, The Holy Land in English Culture 1799-1917: Palestine and the Question of Orientalism (Oxford, 2005).  Analyzes popular travel narratives, fictions, and other representations of Jerusalem; revises Edward Said.  (Review copy)
• Lynda Palazzo, Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002). Critiques some common assumptions about the sources of Rossetti's Anglo-Catholicism.  (Review copy)
• Dinah Roe, Christina Rossetti's Faithful Imagination: The Devotional Poetry and Prose (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).  Analyzes Rossetti's expressly religious works.  (Review copy)
• Jarlath Killeen, The Faiths of Oscar Wilde: Catholicism, Folklore, and Ireland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  Rereads all of Wilde's work in terms of its engagement with Roman and Anglo-Catholicism.  (Review copy)
• Frederick S. Roden, Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).  Focuses on Anglo-Catholic and Roman Catholic culture.  (Review copy)
• Carolyn Oulton, Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).  Survey of how major novelists responded to contemporary religious debates.  (Review copy)
• Karl Ashley Smith, Dickens and the Unreal City: Searching for Spiritual Significance in Nineteenth-Century London (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).  Dickens' theology as it relates specifically to urban life.  (Review copy)
• Elaine Lomax, The Writings of Hesba Stretton (Ashgate, 2009).  Analyzes the work of the exceptionally popular religious novelist.  (Review copy)
• Marlene Tromp, Altered States: Sex, Nation, Drugs, and Self-Transformation in Victorian Spiritualism (SUNY, 2007).  Emphasizes the discourses surrounding mediums.  (Review copy)
• Mary Elizabeth Hotz, Literary Remains: Representations of Death and Burial in Victorian England (SUNY, 2010).  The afterlife of corpses, so to speak.  (Review copy)

Comments

[Zora]

$115 for the Hesba Stretton book? Ye gads!

[nbm]

Sheesh.

[nbm]

(That was about the sheer quantity, not specifically the Stretton volume.)