This Week's Acquisitions

• Jane Harris, Gillespie and I: A Novel (Harper, 2012).  Woman reminisces about her experiences with an (ultimately unsuccessful) artist and his family in late-Victorian Scotland.  (Lift Bridge)
• Richard Maxwell, The Historical Novel in Europe, 1650-1950 (Cambridge, 2009).  The late Maxwell's attempt to produce an alternative genealogy of the historical novel's emergence; I posted about  it a couple of years ago.  (Now would be a good time to thank CUP for having a "hardbacks for $20" sale.)  (CUP)
• Heidi Kaufman, English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Reflections on a Nested Nation (Penn, 2009).  Analyzes how British fiction approriates narratives and concepts from Judaism in order to think about the nature of Englishness; discusses both obvious novels (Tancred) and not-so-obvious novels (Middlemarch).  (Amazon [secondhand])

Comments

[Dr. Weevil]

Since I can't find a contact email on your site, I'll ask here: where do I go to buy "hardbacks for $20" from Cambridge? Can anyone buy them? Are any Classics titles included? Don't leave us hanging!

[Miriam]

Alas, that promotion is no more. However, CUP has a habit of stealthily offering deep discounts on things; to keep track, run Google searches for "discount promotion" site: cambridge.org.

[Dr. Weevil]

Thanks. For a moment I thought maybe there was some little-known URL where I could buy many of the books on my want list at huge discounts any time I wanted, but I suspected that was too good to be true. I'll do your recommended Google search now and then.