MU Libraries New Books: English literature

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5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

A passage to globalism : globalization, identities and South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain / Bidhan Chandra Roy. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR9570.S64 R68 2013

Agnes Grey The tenant of Wildfell Hall / Anne Brontë with an introduction by Lucy Hughes-Hallett. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR4162 .A54 2012

Ceremonies of bravery : Oscar Wilde, Carlos Blacker, and the Dreyfus Affair / J. Robert Maguire. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR5823 .M34 2013

Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve and the commercial practices of late fourteenth-century London / Craig E. Bertolet. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR1933.S59 B47 2013

Collected poetry / John Donne with an introduction and notes by Ilona Bell. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR2246 .B36 2012

Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance : Normans and Saxons / Dominique Battles. (5/15/2013)

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Dominique Battles is Professor of English at Hanover College, USA.

Call #: PR321 .B38 2013

Daniel Defoe : contrarian / Robert James Merrett. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR3407 .M55 2013

How to create the perfect wife : Britain's most ineligible bachelor and his enlightened quest to train the ideal mate / Wendy Moore. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR3398.D3 M66 2013

Inheritance law and political theology in Shakespeare and Milton : election and grace as constitutional in early modern literature and beyond / Joseph S. Jenkins. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR428.L37 J46 2012

Jane Austen, game theorist / Michael Suk-Young Chwe. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR4038.G36 C49 2013

Late modernist style in Samuel Beckett and Emmanuel Levinas / Peter Fifield. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR6003.E282 Z653 2013

Literature, religion, and the evolution of culture, 1660-1780 / Howard D. Weinbrot. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR428.R46 W45 2013

Maggie Gee : writing the condition-of-England novel / Mine Özyurt Kılıç. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR6057.E247 Z73 2013

Novel science : fiction and the invention of nineteenth-century geology / Adelene Buckland. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR468.G38 B83 2013

Olivia Manning : a woman at war / Deirdre David. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR6063.A384 Z63 2012

Rhetoric and the familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne / Daniel Derrin. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR2208 .D47 2013

Scarecrows of Chivalry : English Masculinities after Empire / Praseeda Gopinath. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR478.M34 G67 2013

Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature : Writing Architecture and the Body / Laura Colombino. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: PR149.B62 C65 2013

Tennyson and the fabrication of Englishness / Marion Sherwood. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR5588 .S525 2013

The bomb : a partial history / [introduction by Nicolas Kent]. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR1259.P64 B66 2012

The complete poetry and essential prose of John Milton / edited by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, and Stephen M. Fallon. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR3553 .K47 2007

The Modernist party / edited by Kate McLoughlin. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR473 .M63 2013

The poetry of Victorian scientists : style, science and nonsense / Daniel Brown. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR595.S33 B76 2013

Thomas Hardy in context / [edited by] Phillip Mallett. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR4754 .T494 2012

Women and Tudor tragedy : feminizing counsel and representing gender / Allyna E. Ward. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: PR649.W66 W37 2013

Approaches to teaching the works of Robert Louis Stevenson / edited by Caroline McCracken-Flesher. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR5496 .A67 2013

Avant-garde Canadian literature : the early manifestations / Gregory Betts. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR9194.52.E97 B43 2013

Careless rambles : a selection of his poems / by John Clare chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt with a foreword by Robert Hass. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR4453.C6 A6 2012

Common precedents : the presentness of the past in Victorian law and fiction / Ayelet Ben-Yishai. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Review

"Common Precedents is a fascinating study of the form and substance of the formation of social convention. It's lucid, informative, and offers some truly brilliant readings." --Elaine Freedgood, author of The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel

Call #: PR871 .B46 2013

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's female figures / Patricia Boyle Haberstroh. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR6064.I125 Z633 2013

Middlebrow feminism in classic British detective fiction : the female gentleman / Melissa Schaub, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, USA. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR888.D4 S33 2013

Plain to the inward eye : essays on C.S. Lewis / Don W. King. (5/8/2013)

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Call #: PR6023.E926 Z7475 2013

Poetry by women in Ireland : a critical anthology 1870-1970 / edited by Lucy Collins. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR8853 .P64 2012

R.S. Thomas : serial obsessive / M. Wynn Thomas. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Review

This previously uncollected collection of essays on R. S. Thomas illustrates, once again, that M. Wynn Thomas has continued to be what he has been from the beginning - R. S. Thomas's finest critic. Professor William Davis, Baylor University, Texas M. Wynn Thomas circles his subject obsessively, approaching the work of R. S. Thomas in the contexts in turn of its changing times, its gravely playful theological speculations, its dialogue with American verse, its relationship to painting, and much else besides. The result is a cubist portrait of the artist and his work, a seeing-round-corners miracle of insight and illumination. R.S. Thomas is presented less in the round than the polyhedron, the kinks, angles and many faces of his profound and sometimes difficult poetry brought suddenly into the light by a formidably learned and delicate intelligence. Professor Thomas moves gracefully between the two literatures of Wales - his chapter on the clergyman poet's debt to the example of Saunders Lewis is a tour-de-force of trans-lingual subtlety - and between Welsh and international perspectives. R. S. Thomas: Serial Obsessive must be counted an indispensable book for anyone interested in modern poetry or modern Wales. Professor Patrick Crotty, the University of Aberdeen

Call #: PR6039.H618 Z88 2013

Reading Shakespeare film first / Mary Ellen Dakin foreword by Alan B. Teasley. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR2987 .D34 2013

Shakespeare and Donne : generic hybrids and the cultural imaginary / edited by Judith H. Anderson and Jennifer C. Vaught. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR3072 .S336 2013

Shakespearean sensations : experiencing literature in early modern England / edited by Katharine A. Craik and Tanya Pollard. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR428.P76 S47 2013

Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle : multi-media afterlives / edited by Sabine Vanacker and Catherine Wynne. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR4624 .V36 2013

The practice of satire in England, 1658-1770 / Ashley Marshall. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: PR935 .M37 2013

The rash resolve and, Life's progress / by Eliza Haywood edited by Carol Stewart. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR3506.H94 R37 2013

The real Jane Austen : a life in small things / Paula Byrne. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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“[Byrne] breathes yet more life into Austen and her works by considering the objects that populated her days…. [The] thematic approach offers a revealing picture of Austen and a lively social history….paints a fresh and vivid picture of an inimitable woman.” (The Economist )

“Byrne’s aim is to show how these objects, many of them reproduced in her book in lush color plates, reveal a much more cosmopolitan awareness of the world than is commonly credited to Austen.” (Maureen Corrigan, NPR )

“A vivacious portrait…Byrne’s Austen emerges as a worldly woman, profoundly enmeshed in a wider world than she’s often acknowledged to occupy. This is an Austen with a sense for the political as well as for the finer points of sensibility.” (Publishers Weekly )

“An excellent new biography…well-researched and entertaining…Byrne gives us a Jane Austen many readers may not recognize: a woman who enjoyed black humor and was well aware of the political scene of her time.” (Bookreporter.com )

“Vividly persuasive…. The Real Jane Austen is excellent… particularly on the dissonant topics of theater and slavery….Byrnes section on slavery is better still, establishing links between Austen’s protagonists and contemporary figures, her pointed references and contemporary events, which highlight her supposedly oblivious fiction’s sharp views on the slave trade.” (New York Times Book Review )

“In THE REAL JANE AUSTEN, Bryne’s engaging prose and thoughtful, determined analysis of tangible objects from her life give us a picture of Austen as a vivid, vital woman committed to her career as a novelist, clear-eyed and part of the wider world. Well worth a read.” (Literary Omnivore )

“Biographer Paula Byrne has taken objects from Jane Austen’s real life and times and used them as if we were dropping in on Austen on any given day...a dynamic new biography in which Austen lives and breathes.” (NPR/All Things Considered )

“Byrne takes Austen seriously as a writer...[she] brings to life a woman of “wonderful exuberance and self-confidence,” of “firm opinions and strong passions.” Little wonder that every other man she meets seems to fall in love with her.” (Michael Dirda, Washington Post )

“A fresh behind-the-scenes look at an author who, for many, stands behind only Shakespeare as the greatest English writer.” (Shelf Awareness )

“Brilliantly illuminating…riveting…Again and again…Byrne opens out Austen’s story with a novelist’s persistent probing of the evidence.” (Simon Callow, The Guardian )

Call #: PR4036 .B97 2013

The rhetoric of redemption : chesterton, ethical criticism, and the common man / Alan R. Blackstock. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR4453.C4 Z5345 2012

Unreliable truths : transcultural homeworlds in Indian women's fiction of the diaspora / Sissy Helff. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR9484.6 .H45 2013

What Shakespeare stole from Rome / Brian Arkins. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR3037 .A74 2012

Writing unemployment : worklessness, mobility, and citizenship in twentieth-century Canadian literatures / Jody Mason. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: PR9194.52.U46 M37 2013

Coleridge's experimental poetics / J.C.C. Mays. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Call #: PR4487.P58 M39 2013

Dickens's uncollected magazine and newspaper sketches, as originally composed and published 1833-1836 / edited with an introduction and notes by Robert C. Hanna. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: PR4570.A2 H35 2012

Eucharist and the poetic imagination in early modern England / Sophie Read. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: PR508.R4 R38 2013

Front / by Robert Caisley. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: PR6053.A374 F76 2012

Jane Austen the reader : the artist as critic / Olivia Murphy. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Call #: PR4038.B6 M87 2013

Romantic hellenism and women writers / Noah Comet. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: PR115 .C63 2013

Shakespiritualism : Shakespeare and the occult, 1850-1950 / by Jeffrey Kahan. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Review

"Shakespiritualism introduces a fascinating collection of individuals who imagined they could make contact with the living spirit of Shakespeare. Kahan acknowledges how easy it would be to dismiss their endeavors as silly if not mad, but to do so, he argues, would constitute a missed critical opportunity. For one thing, the very strangeness of the phenomenon helps to define by contrast the interpretive practice with which professional Shakespeareans are familiar. Then too, it's not so strange after all. Kahan points to surprising continuities between Shakespiritualism and our own work, and his darker purpose in this learned and appealing book is to suggest that a critical engagement with Shakespiritualism, while it is bound to remain a queer-looking enterprise, might help to enlarge our own practice beyond the unproductively narrow space within which it is sometimes enclosed." - Edward Pechter, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Concordia University, Canada and author of Shakespeare Studies Today

Call #: PR2965 .K34 2013

The Broadview anthology of medieval drama / general editors, Christina M. Fitzgerald, John T. Sebastian. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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"The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama is an accessible, multi-lingual, and historical-boundary-crossing anthology that is remarkably well-informed by current Early English drama scholarship. Its emphasis on contexts and regional cultures, its inclusion of a wide range of translated and helpfully-modernized dramatic texts and sources (from early continental plays such as the German nun Hrosvitha's Abraham, to the York Mercers' Indenture document, to John Lydgate's household mummings, to Tudor interludes such as Fulgens and Lucres), and, especially, its lively and engaging introductory comments on this trove of texts and their manuscript, print, and performance lives make it the ideal undergraduate text for demonstrating the teeming richness of the earliest British theatre." (Gail McMurray Gibson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English, Davidson College )

"The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama is a worthy and welcome successor to the magisterial [work] by David Bevington that for nearly four decades has guided teachers and students of medieval English drama. Broadview's major anthology by editors Fitzgerald and Sebastian combines Bevington's wide-ranging approach to medieval English drama with informed commentary on current issues in medieval English drama scholarship. Impressively attentive to developments in the field and appreciative of the practical challenges of investigating medieval English drama, this anthology makes a major contribution to the study and teaching of early English drama." (Theresa Coletti, Professor and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, Department of English, University of Maryland College Park )

Call #: PR1260 .B76 2013

The lion's world : a journey into the heart of Narnia / Rowan Williams illustrations by Monica Capoferri. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: PR6023.E926 C53978 2013

A Mirror for Lovers : Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious Perspective / William F. Zak. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR2848 .Z35 2013

Anywhere out of the world : the work of Bruce Chatwin / Jonathan Chatwin. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Review

'[an] intelligent and readable survey ... Jonathan Chatwin's acute probing yields the best account yet of the origins of [Bruce] Chatwin's restless mania.' Nicholas Murray, The TLS, 15th February 2013 -- .

Call #: PR6053.H395 Z59 2012

Fictions of conversion : Jews, Christians, and cultures of change in early modern England / Jeffrey S. Shoulson. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR438.R45 S56 2013

Fragments and assemblages : forming compilations of medieval London / Arthur Bahr. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR255 .B27 2013

Hostage of the word : readings into writings, 1993-2013 / John Schad. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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"Schad reads as he dreams, or dreams as he reads." - Derrida Today

Call #: PR6119.C375 H67 2013

Literature and the Renaissance garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II : England's paradise / by Amy L. Tigner. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR428.G37 T54 2012

Northern Irish poetry and the Russian turn : intertextuality in the work of Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian / Stephanie Schwerter. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR8761 .S39 2013

Reading literature historically : drama and poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation / Greg Walker. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR149.H57 W35 2013

Reading Paradise lost / David Hopkins. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR3562 .H66 2013

Robert Burns and transatlantic culture / [edited by] Sharon Alker, Leith Davis, and Holly Faith Nelson. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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About the Author

Sharon Alker is Associate Professor of English at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington. Leith Davis is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Scottish Studies at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Holly Faith Nelson is Professor and Chair of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia.

Call #: PR4338 .R553 2012

Samuel Beckett in context / [edited by] Anthony Uhlmann, University of Western Sydney. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR6003.E282 Z819 2013

The gospel according to Shakespeare / Piero Boitani translated by Vittorio Montemaggi and Rachel Jacoff. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR3012 .B6513 2013

The Oxford handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley / edited by Michael O'Neill and Anthony Howe with the assistance of Madeleine Callaghan. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR5431 .O94 2013

The Shakespearean stage space / Mariko Ichikawa. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR3095 .I28 2013

William Blake's religious vision : there's a methodism in his madness / Jennifer G. Jesse. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Call #: PR4148.R4 J47 2013

Women, love, and commodity culture in British romanticism / Daniela Garofalo. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: PR468.W6 G37 2012

Frances Burney's Cecilia : a publishing history / by Catherine M. Parisian. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR3316.A4 C436 2012

I.A. Richards and the rise of cognitive stylistics / David West. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR6035.I337 Z95 2013

Jane Austen's manuscript works / edited by Linda Bree, Peter Sabor, and Janet Todd. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR4032 .B74 2013

John Milton prose : major writings on liberty, politics, religion, and education / edited by David Loewenstein. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR3569 .L64 2013

Keepers of the code : English-Canadian literary anthologies and the representation of nation / Robert Lecker. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR9184.6 .L43 2013

Making gender, culture, and the self in the fiction of Samuel Richardson : the novel individual / Bonnie Latimer. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR3667 .L38 2013

Middlebrow queer : Christopher Isherwood in America / Jaime Harker. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR6017.S5 Z675 2013

Reformations of the body : idolatry, sacrifice, and early modern theater / Jennifer Waldron. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR658.B63 W35 2013

Romantic literature and postcolonial studies / Elizabeth A. Bohls. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR447 .B64 2013

Shakespeare up close : reading early modern texts / edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace, and Travis D. Williams. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR2976 .S3386 2012

The Cambridge companion to Scottish literature / edited by Gerard Carruthers and Liam McIlvanney. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR8511 .C36 2012

The novel as church : preaching to readers in contemporary fiction / David Dickinson. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR888.R5 D53 2013

The politics and poetics of contemporary English tragedy / Sean Carney. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR739.P64 C37 2013

Troilus and Criseyde : a reader's guide / Jenni Nuttall. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR1896 .N88 2012

Women writers of the (long) English regency : a catalogue of books published from 1789 to 1837 : offered for sale / by Stuart Bennett Rare Books & Manuscripts. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: PR115 .S89 2009

Be it ever so humble : poverty, fiction, and the invention of the middle-class home / Scott R. MacKenzie. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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Call #: PR858.H65 M33 2013

Cataract : some notes after having a cataract removed / John Berger with drawings by Selçuk Demirel. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

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About the Author

Storyteller, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, JOHN BERGER is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker-prizewinning novel G (1972), Here is Where We Meet (2005), About Looking (2009) and, most recently, Bento’s Sketchbook (2011) He lives in a small village community in France.

SELÇUK DEMIREL was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He trained as an architect and moved to Paris in 1978, where he still lives. His illustrations and books have appeared in many prominent European and American publications.

Call #: PR6052.E564 C38 2012

Nightrise / Jim Kelly. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: PR6111.E5 N54 2012

Renaissance Cultural Crossroads : translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640 / edited by S.K. Barker and Brenda M. Hosington. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: PR131 .R46 2013

Sex Before Sex : Figuring the Act in Early Modern England / Will Stockton and James M. Bromley, editors afterword by Valerie Traub. (4/10/2013)

4/10/2013

Call #: PR428.S48 S49 2013

A life in letters / P.G. Wodehouse edited by Sophie Ratcliffe. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR6045.O53 Z48 2013

Before daybreak : "After the Race" and the origins of Joyce's art / Coilin Owens foreword by Sebastian D.G. Knowles. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR6019.O9 Z7474 2013

Blake's agitation : criticism and the emotions / Steven Goldsmith. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR4147 .G65 2013

British literary salons of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Susanne Schmid. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR448.S3 S36 2013

Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the development of the English novel / Paula R. Backscheider. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: PR3671.R4 Z58 2013

New perspectives on Mary Elizabeth Braddon / edited by Jessica Cox. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR4989.M4 Z83 2012

'Post'-9/11 South Asian diasporic fiction : uncanny terror / Pei-chen Liao. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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About the Author

PEI-CHEN LIAO is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.

Call #: PR9570.S64 L52 2013

Redcrosse : remaking religious poetry for today's world / edited by Ewan Fernie. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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Call #: PR508.R4 R43 2012

Renascent Joyce / edited by Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, and André Topia foreword by Sebastian D. G. Knowles. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR6019.O9 Z78435 2013

Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx : tracing 'a literary fantasia' / David Tucker. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR6003.E282 Z858 2012

Self-consciousness in modern british fiction / Brook Miller. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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"Building on recent work suggesting how a focus on issues of affect, embodied cognition, and consciousness can generate new insights into the history of the novel, while also illuminating the nature and functions of narrative more generally, Self-consciousness in Modern British Fiction sketches out an innovative, well-grounded, and impressively cross-disciplinary approach to the staging of self-consciousness in foundational twentieth-century texts." - David Herman, Ohio State University

Call #: PR830.S427 M55 2013

Style in the Renaissance : language and ideology in early modern England / Patricia Canning. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR421 .C27 2012

The atheist Milton / Michael E. Bryson. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR3592.R4 B79 2012

The citizen / Ann Gomersall edited by Margaret S. Yoon. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR4725.G45 C57 2013

The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters : gender, transgression, adolescence / Jennifer Higginbotham. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR428.G57 H54 2013

The history of Lady Julia Mandeville / Frances Brooke edited by Enit Karafili Steiner. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR3326.B37 H57 2013

The literary history of Saskatchewan / [selected and] edited by David Carpenter. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR9198.2.S2 L58 2013

The poetics of piracy : emulating Spain in English literature / Barbara Fuchs. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR129.S7 F83 2013

Under postcolonial eyes : figuring the "Jew" in contemporary British writing / Efraim Sicher and Linda Weinhouse. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR151.J5 S54 2012

What matters in Jane Austen? : twenty crucial puzzles solved / John Mullan. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

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“Substantial yet conversational, this is scholarship without pedantry… An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books is the next best thing.”—The Atlantic "Absorbing ... Whether the topic is age, sex, death, money, illness, holidays, accidents, the weather or marriage proposals, Austen’s reticence has seldom been handled with such delicate precision ... His work is essayistic and briskly compendious, but as a whole the book also builds up to a satisfying conclusion—one that acknowledges Austen’s capacity to bestow on her character’s lives all of their own, “as if she were observing ... rather than creating” them ... Such is the quality and incisiveness of Mullan’s critical engagement with Austen that the only thing to regret about his book is that there isn’t more of it ... What Matters in Jane Austen? is a model of clarity, verve, and perception"—Literary Review

“Delightful… Mullan’s humorous guidebook encourages first-time Austen readers to pick up her novels and lovers of Austen to re-read for new details.” —Publishers Weekly

“A box of 20 literary chocolates for Austen fans to savor.”—Kirkus

“Mullan’s close reading will provide serious fans with plenty of new insights for the next time they pick up one of Austen’s books.”—Booklist

“This collection of essays will delight. Mullan’s intent is to reveal Austen’s cleverness and revolutionary approach, and he succeeds, deftly sharing with readers his enthusiasm and knowledge gleaned from Austen scholarship in this enjoyable read. [F]ans will appreciate the clarity and perspective Mullan brings to a beloved author’s works.”—Library Journal

Call #: PR4037 .M854 2013

Young Milton : the emerging author, 1620-1642 / edited by Edward Jones. (4/3/2013)

4/3/2013

Call #: PR3588 .Y68 2013

In darkest London : the gothic cityscape in Victorian literature / Jamieson Ridenhour. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Call #: PR468.L65 R53 2013

Modern love and Poems of the English roadside, with poems and ballads / George Meredith edited by Rebecca N. Mitchell and Criscillia Benford. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Review

“One hundred fifty years have passed since George Meredith’s extraordinarily bold ‘Modern Love’ struck Richard Holt Hutton in the Spectator as nothing less than ‘Modern Lust.’ In this finely prepared edition, Rebecca N. Mitchell and Criscillia Benford draw detailed attention to one of Victorian Britain’s greatest poems on sexual desire. This outstanding edition enables us to see why Meredith, a unique writer whose formidable demands too often account for his unjustifiable neglect, deserves renewed critical attention.”—Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles

Call #: PR5008 .M6 2012

Shakespeare and philosophy : lust, love, and law / Raymond Angelo Belliotti. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Call #: PR3001 .B455 2012

The illicit happiness of other people / Manu Joseph. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PR9499.4.J676 I45 2012

The testament of Mary / Colm Tóibín. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PR6070.O455 T47 2012

Victorian time : technologies, standardizations, catastrophes / edited by Trish Ferguson. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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About the Author

TRISH FERGUSON is a lecturer in the School of English at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Educated at Trinity College Dublin, she is an expert on Victorian literature and culture.

Call #: PR878.T5 V53 2013

Watching the dark / Peter Robinson. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

Call #: PR6068.O1964 W38 2013

A small fire / by Adam Bock. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR9199.4.B623 S63 2012

Bewilderments of vision : hallucination and literature, 1880-1914 / Oliver Tearle. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR878.P75 T43 2013

Early modern playhouse manuscripts and the editing of Shakespeare / Paul Werstine. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR3071 .W47 2013

Literature in the public service : sublime bureaucracy / Ceri Sullivan. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR149.B85 S85 2013

Next year's man of steel / by David Belke. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR9199.3.B3772 N49 2012

The Broadview anthology of nineteenth-century British performance / edited by Tracy C. Davis. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR1271 .B718 2012

The Brontës in context / edited by Marianne Thormählen. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR4168 .B775 2012

The lady and her monsters : a tale of dissections, real-life Dr. Frankensteins, and the creation of Mary Shelley's masterpiece / Roseanne Montillo. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR5398 .M57 2013

Transmission and generation in Medieval and Renaissance literature : essays in honour of John Scattergood / Karen Hodder and Brendan O'Connell, editors. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR251 .T73 2012

Virginia Woolf in context / edited by Bryony Randall, Jane Goldman. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

Call #: PR6045.O72 Z89356 2012

W.H. Auden in context / [edited by] Tony Sharpe, University of Central Lancashire, Preston. (3/20/2013)

3/20/2013

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Call #: PR6001.U4 Z8914 2012