New Acquisitions in British & Commonwealth Literature
for Olin Library, SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2007

  • Note: Check the library catalog for circulation status.

    In general, this list does not include new works of poetry, fiction or drama.


  • Edited volumes (alphabetically by title)

    A La Carte : Food & Fiction. Manila:Anvil, 2007. OLIN PR9550.8 .A21 2007

    Adventures in Realism. Malden, MA ; Oxford:Blackwell Pub., 2007. OLIN PR468.R42 B43 2007

    British and European Romanticisms : Selected Papers from the Munich Conference of the German Society for English Romanticism. Trier:WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. OLIN PR457 .G484 2007

    The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR2894 .C334 2007

    The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR605.M63 C36 2007

    The Cambridge Companion to the Fin De siecle. Cambridge ; New York:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR461 .C36 2007

    A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Drama. Malden, MA ; Oxford:Blackwell Pub., 2008. OLIN PR736 .C576 2008

    Contemporary Diasporic Literature : Writing History, Culture, Self. Delhi:Pencraft International, 2007. OLIN PR9485.45 .C65 2007

    Critical Receptions : Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan. Bethesda, MD:Academica Press, 2007.

    The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature. Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2007. OLIN PR8511 .E34 2007

    English Literatures Across the Globe : A Companion. Paderborn:Wilhelm Fink, 2007. OLIN PR77 .E54 2007

    Environment and Embodiment in Early Modern England. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR428.B63 E59 2007

    Feminist Literary Theory and Criticism : A Norton Reader. New York:W.W. Norton, 2007. OLIN PR1110.W6 F46 2007

    Frank O'Connor : Critical Essays. Dublin ; Portland, OR:Four Courts Press, 2007. OLIN PR6029.D58 Z67 2007

    The Gothic in Children's Literature : Haunting the Borders. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR830.C513 G67 2008

    Guy of Warwick : Icon and Ancestor. Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY:D.S. Brewer, 2007. OLIN New & Noteworthy Books PR2065.G63 G89 2007

    Hamlet [Videorecording]. Burbank, CA:Warner Home Video, 2007. OLIN Media Center Videodisc 2324

    Horrifying Sex : Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature. Jefferson, N.C:McFarland & Co., 2007. OLIN PR468.S48 H67 2007

    Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period [Electronic Resource]. Alexandria, VA:Alexander Street Press, 2007. OLIN ONLINE No call number

    Jane Eyre on Stage, 1848-1898 : An Illustrated Edition of Eight Plays with Contextual Notes /. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR1271 .J36 2007

    Joyce to the World [Videorecording]. Los Angeles, CA:Choices, 2007. OLIN Videodisc 2334

    The Law in Shakespeare. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR3028 .L39 2007; PR3028 .L39 2007

    The Letters of John Murray to Lord. Liverpool England:Liverpool University Press, 2007. OLIN PR4381 .A44 2007

    Magical Objects : Things and Beyond. Berlin, Germany ; Madison, Wis:Galda + Wilch Verlag, 2007. OLIN PR468.M39 M34 2007

    Milton and Toleration. New York:Oxford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR3588 .M483 2007

    On Second Thought : Updating the Eighteenth-Century Text. Newark:University of Delaware Press, 2007. OLIN PR442 .O53 2007

    Queer People : Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800. Lewisburg:Bucknell University Press, 2007. OLIN PR448.H65 Q44 2007

    Re-Reading Thomas Traherne : A Collection of New Critical Essays. Tempe, Ariz:Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2007. OLIN PR3736.T7 Z86 2007

    Reading the Caribbean : Approaches to Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Culture. Heidelberg:Winter, 2007. OLIN PR9205 .R43 2007

    Reading the Medieval in Early Modern England. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR421 .R354 2007

    Robert Greene's Planetomachia. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR2280.G44 P633 2007

    Romanticism's Debatable Lands. Basingstoke ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR468.B68 R66 2007

    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. London:Faber and Faber, 2007. OLIN PR2065.G3 A33 2007

    Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR2987 .T363 2007

    Transmission and Transformation in the Middle Ages : Texts and Contexts. Dublin:Four Courts, 2007. OLIN PR275.H5 T73 2007


    Single Author volumes (alphabetically by author)

    Donatella Abbate Badin. Lady Morgan's Italy : Anglo-Irish Sensibilities and Italian Realities. Bethesda, MD:Academica Press, 2007. OLIN PR5059.M3 Z58 2007

    Rachel Ablow. The Marriage of Minds : Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR878.M36 A65 2007

    Opal Palmer Adisa. Until Judgement Comes : Stories about Jamaican Men. Leeds, England:Peepal Tree, 2007. OLIN PR9265.9.A35 U58 2007

    Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric. Ãlfric's Lives of the Virgin Spouses : With Modern English Parallel-Text Translations : Julian and Basilissa, Cecilia and Valerian and Chrysanthus and Daria. Exeter:University of Exeter, 2007. OLIN PR1527 .A45 2007

    Stephen Ahern. Affected Sensibilities : Romantic Excess and the Genealogy of the Novel, 1680-1810. New York:AMS Press, 2007. OLIN PR858.S45 A36 2007

    Hilarious N. Ambe. Change Aesthetics in Anglophone Cameroon Drama & Theatre. Eckersdorf:Pia Thielmann & Eckhard Breitinger, 2007. OLIN PR9372.3 .A43 2007

    Catherine Armstrong. Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century : English Representations in Print and Manuscript. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR1293 .A76 2007

    Robert Barnard. A Bronte Encyclopedia. Malden, MA ; Oxford:Blackwell Pub., 2007. OLIN Oversize PR4167.A3 B76 2007+

    Annika Bautz. The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott : A Comparative Longitudinal Study. London:Continuum, 2007. OLIN PR4037 .B38 2007

    Andrew Bennett. Wordsworth Writing. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR5891 .B46 2007

    Matthew Bevis. The Art of Eloquence : Oxford ; New York:Oxford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR468.P57 B48 2007

    Silke Binias. Symbol and Symptom : The Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century and Feminist Criticism. Heidelberg:Winter, 2007. OLIN PR585.W6 B56 2007

    Erik Bond. Reading London : Urban Speculation and Imaginative Government in Eighteenth-Century Literature. Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 2007. OLIN PR448.L65 B66 2007

    Ian Brinton. Dickens's Great Expectations : A Reader's Guide. London ; New York:Continuum, 2007. OLIN PR4560 .B75 2007

    Robert Browning. Robert Browning's Poetry : Authoritative Texts, Criticism. New York:W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. OLIN PR4202 .L59 2007

    Bradley Buchanan. Hanif Kureishi. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR6061.U68 Z58 2007

    Stephen Burt. The Forms of Youth : Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence. New York:Columbia University Press, 2007. OLIN PR605.A33 B87 2007

    Sarah Phillips Casteel. Second Arrivals : Landscape and Belonging in Contemporary Writing of the Americas. Charlottesville:University of Virginia Press, 2007. OLIN PR9175 .C37 2007

    Elisabetta Cecconi. "Who Chose this Face for Me?" : Joyce's Creation of Secondary Characters in Ulysses. Bern ; New York:Peter Lang, 2007. OLIN PR6019.O9 U636 2007

    Paul Cefalu. English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory : Sublime Objects of Theology. New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR438.R45 C45 2007

    Kenneth R. Cervelli. Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology. New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR5849 .C47 2007

    Peter Childs. Ian McEwan's Enduring Love. London ; New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR6063.C4 E5335 2006

    Paul Chirico. John Clare and the Imagination of the Reader. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR4453.C6 Z5995 2007

    Benjamin James Clarke. Orwell in Context : Communities, Myths, Values. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR6029.R8 Z619 2007

    Sara Coleridge Coleridge. Collected Poems. Manchester:Carcanet, 2007. OLIN PR4489.C2 A6 2007

    Geraldine Cousin. Playing for Time : Stories of Lost Children, Ghosts and the Endangered Present in Contemporary Theatre. Manchester ; New York; New York:Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. OLIN PR736 .C68 2007

    David M. Craig. Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy : Political Argument in Britain, 1780-1840. Woodbridge, Sufolk, UK; Rochester, NY:Boydell Press; Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2007. OLIN PR5468.P6 C73 2007

    Ashley Dawson. Mongrel Nation : Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2007. OLIN PR120.M55 D39 2007

    Garin Dowd. Abstract Machines : Samuel Beckett and Philosophy After Deleuze and Guattari. Amsterdam ; New York:Rodopi, 2007. OLIN PR6003.E282 Z6248 2007

    Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Subject, Context and the Contours of Nigerian Fiction : Studies Contrasting the Postcolonial Notion. Eckersdorf:Thielmann & Breitinger, 2007. OLIN PR9387.4 .E94 2007

    Max Fincher. Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age : The Penetrating Eye. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR468.H65 F56 2007

    Joan Fitzpatrick. Food in Shakespeare : Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR3069.F64 F58 2007

    Donna Freitas. Killing the Imposter God : Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials. San Francisco:Jossey-Bass, 2007. OLIN PR6066.U44 Z66 2007

    John Glendening. The Evolutionary Imagination in Late-Victorian Novels : An Entangled Bank. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR878.E95 G55 2007

    Sara Emilie Guyer. Romanticism After Auschwitz. Stanford, Calif:Stanford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR457 .G89 2007

    Dayton Haskin. John Donne in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford ; New York:Oxford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR2248 .H37 2007

    Hugh Hazelton. Latinocanada : A Critical Study of Ten Latin American Writers of Canada. Montreal:McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. OLIN PR9188.2.H56 H39 2007

    Graley Herren. Samuel Beckett's Plays on Film and Television. New York, N.Y. ; Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR6003.E282 Z676 2007

    D. J. Hopkins. City/stage/globe : Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR3091 .H65 2008

    Anna Maria Jones. Problem Novels : Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self. Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 2007. OLIN PR871 .J66 2007

    Simon Joyce. The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror. Athens:Ohio University Press, 2007. OLIN PR478.H57 J69 2007

    Rayna Kalas. Frame, Glass, Verse : The Technology of Poetic Invention in the English Renaissance. Ithaca:Cornell University Press, 2007. OLIN New & Noteworthy Books PR535.F7 K35 2007; PR535.F7 K35 2007

    Patricia Kerslake. Science Fiction and Empire. Liverpool England:Liverpool University Press, 2007. OLIN PR830.S35 K47 2007

    James Kilroy Dr. The Nineteenth Century English Novel : Family Ideology and Narrative Form. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR878.F29 K55 2007

    Bernhard Klein. On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing. Manchester ; New York:Manchester University Press; distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. OLIN PR8718 .K54 2007

    Kurt Koenigsberger. The Novel and the Menagerie : Totality, Englishness, and Empire. Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 2007. OLIN PR878.N3557 K64 2007

    Heinz Kosok. The Theatre of War : The First World War in British and Irish Drama. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR739.W65 K67 2007

    William Kupersmith. English Versions of Roman Satire in the Earlier Eighteenth Century. Newark:University of Delaware Press, 2007. OLIN PR555.S25 K87 2007

    Ying S. Lee. Masculinity and the English Working Class : Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction. New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR788.A9 L45 2007

    Emma Lipton. Affections of the Mind : The Politics of Sacramental Marriage in Late Medieval English Literature. Notre Dame, Ind:University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. OLIN PR275.M3 L57 2007

    Maria Francisca Llantada Diaz. Form and Meaning in Dorothy M. Richardson's Pilgrimage. Heidelberg:Winter, 2007. OLIN PR6035.I34 P535 2006

    Michela Mancini. Immaginando Ivanhoe : Romanzi Illustrati, Balli e Opere Teatrali Dell'Ottocento Italiano. Milano:B. Mondadori, 2007. OLIN PR5341 .M346 2007

    Susan Mandala. Twentieth-Century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk : Speaking between the Lines. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR736 .M35 2007

    Frances McCormack. Chaucer and the Culture of Dissent : The Lollard Context and Subtext of the Parson's Tale. Dublin:Four Courts Press, 2007. OLIN PR1868.P33 M33 2007

    Thomas Middleton. Women Beware Women. Manchester ; New York Manchester University Press ; New York:Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. OLIN PR2714 .W56 2007

    Andrew John Miller. Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR478.N37 M56 2008

    Vijay Mishra. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora : Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary. London ; New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR9485.45 .M57 2007

    Tania Modleski. Loving with a Vengeance : Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR830.W6 M6 2008

    Tom Mole. Byron's Romantic Celebrity : Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR4381 .M63 2007

    Ken Monteith. Yeats and Theosophy. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR5908.O25 M66 2008

    Maureen Moran. Catholic Sensationalism and Victorian Literature. Liverpool England:Liverpool University Press, 2007. OLIN PR461.C3 M67 2007

    Ankhi Mukherjee. Aesthetic Hysteria : The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction. New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR728.M4 M85 2007

    Josephina Niggli. The Plays of Josefina Niggli : Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature. Madison:University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. OLIN PR9200.9.N5 P55 2007

    M. S. C. Okolo. African Literature as Political Philosophy. Dakar, Senegal; New York : In association with Zed Books Ltd. ; New York:CODESRIA Books ; London; Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR9340.5 .O56 2007

    Carolyn Oulton. Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR468.F75 O86 2007

    John Parker. The Aesthetics of Antichrist : From Christian Drama to Christopher Marlowe. Ithaca:Cornell University Press, 2007. OLIN PR2677.R4 P37 2007

    Sara Maria Pons Sanz. Norse-Derived Vocabulary in Late Old English Texts : Wulfstan's Works, a Case Study. Odense; Portland, OR:University Press of Southern Denmark; Distribution in the United States by International Specialized Book Services, 2007. OLIN PR1799 .P66 2007

    David Punter. Modernity. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR478.M6 P86 2007

    Helga Ramsey-Kurz. The Non-Literate Other : Readings of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Novels in English. Amsterdam ; New York, NY:Rodopi, 2007. OLIN PR888.I35 R36 2007

    Don Randall. David Malouf. Manchester ; New York; New York:Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. OLIN PR9619.3.M265 Z826 2007

    David Alan Richards. Rudyard Kipling : The Books I Leave Behind /. 2007. OLIN Oversize Z8465 .R53 2007+

    Robert Rix. William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR4148.R4 R59 2007

    Leah Rosenberg. Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature. New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR9210 .R67 2007

    Sharon Ruston. Romanticism. London ; New York, NY:Continuum, 2007. OLIN PR447 .R88 2007

    Karen Sands-O'Connor. Soon Come Home to this Island : West Indians in British Children's Literature. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR990 .S26 2008

    Amy Scott-Douglass. Shakespeare Inside : The Bard Behind Bars. London:Continuum, 2007. OLIN PR2987 .D68 2007

    Terry G. Sherwood. The Self in Early Modern Literature : For the Common Good. Pittsburgh, Pa:Duquesne University Press, 2007. OLIN PR428.S45 S54 2007

    David Shuttleton. Smallpox and the Literary Imagination, 1660-1820. Cambridge ; New York:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR448.D57 S58 2007

    Peter Simonsen. Wordsworth and Word-Preserving Arts : Typographic Inscription, Ekphrasis and Posterity in the Later Work. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR5892.A66 S56 2007

    Kevin Paul Smith. The Postmodern Fairy Tale : Folkloric Intertexts in Contemporary Fiction. Basingstoke England ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR888.F27 S65 2007

    Elizabeth Solopova. Key Concepts in Medieval Literature. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR255 .S65 2007

    Nina Taunton. Fictions of Old Age in Early Modern Literature and Culture. New York:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR428.O43 T38 2007

    Ayanna Thompson. Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR698.R34 T48 2008

    Carl Thompson. The Suffering Traveller and the Romantic Imagination. Oxford; New York:Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR756.T72 T47 2007

    Marianne Thormählen. The Brontës and Education. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007. OLIN PR4169 .T469 2007

    Alex Tickell. Arundhati Roy's the God of Small Things. New York, NY:Routledge, 2007. OLIN PR9499.3.R59 G6338 2007

    Edith L. Tiempo. Six Poetry Formats and the Transforming Image : A Monograph on Free Verse. Diliman, Quezon City:University of the Philippines Press, 2007. OLIN PR9550.9.T5 S59 2007

    Uma Parameswaran. Salman Rushdie's Early Fiction. Jaipur:Rawat Publications, 2007. OLIN PR6068.U757 Z863 2007

    Alyce von Rothkirch. The Place of Wales : Staging Place in Contemporary Welsh Drama in English. Trier:WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007. OLIN PR8961 .R68 2007

    Daniel Wakelin Dr. Humanism, Reading, and English Literature, 1430-1530. Oxford ; New York:Oxford University Press, 2007. OLIN PR418.H8 W36 2007

    James Walton. Vision and Vacancy : The Fictions of J.S. Le Fanu. Dublin, Ireland:University College Dublin Press, 2007. OLIN PR4879.L7 Z9335 2007

    Roderick Watson. The Literature of Scotland. Basingstoke ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR8511 .W38 2007

    Carol Watts. The Cultural Work of Empire : The Seven Years' War and the Imagining of the Shandean State. Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 2007. OLIN PR3716 .W38 2007

    Simon J. White. Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR4149.B6 Z77 2007

    David Whittle. Bruce Montgomery/Edmund Crispin : A Life in Music and Books. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT:Ashgate, 2007. OLIN PR6025.O46 Z95 2007

    Adrian S. Wisnicki. Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel. New York:Routledge, 2008. OLIN PR878.C65 W57 2008

    Michael Witmore. Pretty Creatures : Children and Fiction in the English Renaissance. Ithaca:Cornell University Press, 2007. OLIN PR428.C44 W58 2007

    Julian Wolfreys. Dickens to Hardy, 1837-1884 : The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century. Basingstoke:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR781 .W65 2007

    Tim Woods. African Pasts : Memory and History in African Literatures. Manchester, UK ; New York; New York:Manchester University Press; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2007. OLIN PR9340 .W46 2007

    Angela Wright. Gothic Fiction. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York:Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR830.T3 W75 2007

    Ann Wroe. Being Shelley : The Poet's Search for Himself. New York:Pantheon Books, 2007. OLIN New & Noteworthy Books PR5431 .W76 2007

    R. A. York. Agatha Christie : Power and Illusion. Basingstoke:New York; Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. OLIN PR6005.H66 Z96 2007


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