This (Last Two) Week's Acquisitions

(Hmm.  This "reduce the number of books" thing doesn't seem to be going quite as anticipated.)

• Israel Zangwill, Children of the Ghetto, ed. Meri-Jane Rochelson (Wayne State, UP, 1998).  Scholarly edition of this classic work of Anglo-Jewish fiction, originally published in 1892.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Edith Johnstone, A Sunless Heart, ed. Constance Harsh (Broadview, 2008).  First-ever reprint of this little-known Victorian novel--featuring copious quantities of illness, (unpleasant) sex, and death--which first appeared in 1894.  (Borders)
• Patrick White, A Fringe of Leaves (Vintage, 1997).  Historical novel set in early Victorian Australia.  An Englishwoman come to Australia finds herself shipwrecked, then taken captive.  (Heartwood Books)
• Helen Dunmore, The Siege (Grove, 2002).  Young woman finds love as she desperately tries to survive the Siege of Leningrad.  (University of Virginia Bookstore)
• Ernst Weiss, Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer, trans. Joel Rotenberg (Archipelago, 2010).  First English translation of this 1931 Austrian novel, told by a decidedly untrustworthy (and, as the subtitle indicates, homicidal) narrator.  (University of Virginia Bookstore)
• Peter K. Garrett, The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form (Yale, 1980).  Bakhtinian approach to the most (in)famous of Victorian narrative forms.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Henry Adelbert White, Sir Walter Scott's Novels on the Stage (Archon, 1973).  Chronicles the history of the theatrical adaptations.  (Heartwood Books)
• Susan J. Wolfson, Romantic Interactions: Social Being and the Turns of Literary Action (Johns Hopkins, 2010).  Multiple forms of literary dialogue.  (Review copy)
• The Christian Remembrancer, vols. X-XI (1845-46).  Decidedly dilapidated volume of this Anglican journal.  (eBay)
• John Wolffe, The Expansion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Wilberforce, More, Chalmers, and Finney (IVP, 2007).  Securing evangelicalism's reach, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Caitriona Clear, Nuns in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Gill & Macmillan, 1988).  Nuns, religious houses, educational endeavors, etc.  (Samovar Books)