This Week's Acquisitions

(Heave! Heave!)

• Margaret Elphinstone, The Sea Road (Canongate, 2001).  Viking woman treks to North America.  (eBay)
• Louise Welsh, The Cutting Room (Canongate, 2003).  Glasgow auctioneer finds troubling photographs.  (eBay)
• The Union Review: A Magazine of Catholic Literature and Art (1875).  This very decrepit volume appears to be incomplete--it only has selected articles on history and theology.  (eBay)
• Murray Pittock, Scottish and Irish Romanticism (Oxford, 2008).  A new literary history that examines the applicability of "Romantic" outside of England.  (OUP)
• Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain's Heroic Muse, 1790-1910 (Oxford, 2008).  A hefty literary history by one of the best-known specialists on Victorian poetry.  (OUP)
• Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination 1830-1880 (Oxford, 2008).  Glass and the transformation of Victorian poetics, aesthetics, etc.  (OUP)
• Jan Fergus, Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 2007).  Who read what where.  (OUP)
• Robert MacFarlane, Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford, 2007).  How original is that original in the window? (OUP)
• Thomas F. Bonnell, The Most Disreputable Trade: Publishing the Classics of English Poetry 1765-1810 (Oxford, 2008).  Controversies surrounding the new vogue for collected editions.  (OUP)
• Richard Maxwell and Katie Trumpener, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period (Cambridge, 2008).  National tales, historical fiction, Gothic, etc., etc., etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Jason B. Jones, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature (Ohio, 2006).  What did the Victorians make of historicist thinking? (Amazon [secondhand])
• Thomas Dixon, The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain (Oxford, 2008).  The nineteenth-century fate of "altruism," post-Comte.  (OUP)
• James Pereiro, "Ethos" and the Oxford Movement: At the Heart of Tractarianism (Oxford, 2008).  Role of the concept of ethos in shaping Tractarian thought.  (OUP)