This Week's Acquisitions

• Nikolai Leskov, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk  (Hesperus, 2003).  Novella (first published in 1865) translating elements of the Scottish play to Russia; inspired an opera by Shostakovich.  Also known as Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Stanley Elkin, George Mills (Dalkey Archive, 2003).  The centuries-long family saga of the George Mills men, all members of whatever working class existed at the time.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Marlon James, John Crow's Devil (Akashic, 2005).  Historical novel about the gruesome battle between two preachers in 1950s Jamaica.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• James Hogg, Anecdotes of Scott (Edinburgh, 2005).  Hogg's extremely controversial memoirs of his relationship with Sir Walter Scott.  (eBay)
• Mariadele Boccardi, The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).  Focuses on thirteen novelists, including Fowles, Robertson, Byatt, and Soueif.  I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
• Maureen Moran, Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature (Liverpool, 2007).  Interplay of the sensation genre with writings by and about Catholics.  (Amazon)

Comments

[Kaite]

Oh, the Moran book sounds fascinating! My Wilkie Collins-obsessed brain instantly went to the Foscos in The Woman in White...