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New Books for English Literature

Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism by Janelle A. Schwartz
Call Number: Clapp Library PN603 .S27 2012

Worm Work studies the lesser-known natural historical records of Abraham Trembley and his contemporaries and the familiar works of Erasmus and Charles Darwin, William Blake, Mary Shelley, and John Keats, to expose the worm as an organism that is not only reviled as a taxonomic terror but revered as a sign of great order in nature as well as narrative.
British romanticism and the Catholic question : religion, history, and national identity, 1778-1829 by Michael Tomko
Call Number: Clapp Library DC138 .F65 2011

The debate over extending full civil rights to British and Irish Catholics not only preoccupied British politics but also informed the romantic period’s most prominent literary works. This book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary study of Catholic Emancipation, one of the romantic period’s most contentious issues.
Women's authorship and editorship in Victorian culture: sensational strategies by Beth Palmer
Call Number: Clapp Library PR878.W6 P35 2011

This book considers the ways in which women writers used the powerful positions of author and editor to perform conventions of gender and genre in the Victorian period. It examines Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, and Florence Marryat's magazines (Belgravia, Argosy, and London Society respectively) alongside their sensation fiction to explore the mutually influential strategies of authorship and editorship.