(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)
$115 for the Hesba Stretton book? Ye gads!
Posted by: Zora | March 19, 2011 at 01:47 AM
Sheesh.
Posted by: nbm | March 20, 2011 at 10:20 PM
(That was about the sheer quantity, not specifically the Stretton volume.)
Posted by: nbm | March 20, 2011 at 10:21 PM