Incoming Resources
- Twelve years a slave, Solomon Northup ; introduction by Philip S. Foner
- The odyssey of an African slave, by Sitiki ; edited by Patricia C. Griffin
- An atlas of geographical wonders, from mountaintops to riverbeds : a selection of comparative maps and tableaux, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Jean-Marc Besse, Philippe Grand, Gilles Palsky
- Salem is my dwelling place, a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Edwin Haviland Miller
- Arguments over genocide, the war of words in the Congress and the Supreme Court over Cherokee removal, by Steven J. Schwartzberg
- Apostles of the self-made man, by John G. Cawelti
- Victorian poetry,, edited by E.K. Brown and J.O. Bailey
- Imperial twilight, the opium war and the end of China's last golden age, Stephen R. Platt
- Studies and appreciations
- Patriotic gore;, studies in the literature of the American Civil War
- Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian art and design, Tim Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, Alison Smith ; with contributions by Elizabeth Prettejohn and Diane Waggoner
- Walden and Civil disobedience, authoritative texts, background, reviews, and essays in criticism, edited by Owen Thomas
- Contested borderland, the Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia, Brian D. McKnight
- Edgar Allan Poe, the fever called living, Paul Collins
- Something in the Blood, the Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
- William Wordsworth, a biography, Hunter Davies
- American sublime, landscape painting in the United States, 1820-1880, Andrew Wilton & Tim Barringer
- The ghost map, the story of London's most terrifying epidemic--and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world, Steven Johnson
- America's great debate, Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union, Fergus M. Bordewich
- A swim in a pond in the rain, in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life, George Saunders
- In the kingdom of ice, the grand and terrible polar voyage of the USS Jeannette, Hampton Sides
- Fighting chance, the struggle over woman suffrage and Black suffrage in Reconstruction America, Faye E. Dudden
- The social novel in England, 1830-1850: Dickens, Disraeli, Mrs. Gaskell, Kingsley;, translated, with a foreword, by Martin Fido
- Voodoo queen, the spirited lives of Marie Laveau, by Martha Ward
- Emily Dickinson's poetry;, stairway of surprise
- The romance in America;, studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James
- Beyond the martyrs, a social history of Chicago's anarchists, 1870-1900, Bruce C. Nelson
- A just and generous nation, Abraham Lincoln and the fight for American opportunity, Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle
- The good country, a history of the American Midwest, 1800-1900, Jon K. Lauck
- Victorians and the machine;, the literary response to technology,, by Herbert L. Sussman
- Critics on Jane Austen
- The reinterpretation of Victorian literature., Edited by Joseph E. Baker for the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America
- Effi Briest., Introd. by Daniel Coogan. [Translated from the German and abridged by William A. Cooper]
- Charlotte Brontë, a passionate life, Lyndall Gordon
- Concord rebel;, a life of Henry D. Thoreau
- The Brontës, a documentary volume, edited by Susan B. Taylor
- Like men of war, Black troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865, Noah Andre Trudeau
- Daily life in immigrant America, 1820-1870, how the first great wave of immigrants made their way in America, James M. Bergquist
- Essays, letters, and reviews., Collected and edited by Fraser Neiman
- Who freed the slaves?, the fight over the Thirteenth Amendment, Leonard L. Richards
- Edgar A. Poe, mournful and never-ending remembrance, Kenneth Silverman
- The last slave ships, New York and the end of the middle passage, John Harris
- The complete prose works of Matthew Arnold, edited by R.H. Super
- The Cambridge companion to Emily Dickinson, edited by Wendy Martin
- The meaning of everything, the story of the Oxford English dictionary, Simon Winchester
- The kidnapping club, Wall Street, slavery, and resistance on the eve of the Civil War, Jonathan Daniel Wells
- The early American daguerreotype, cross-currents in art and technology, Sarah Kate Gillespie
- The long walk to freedom, runaway slave narratives, edited and with introductions by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise
- A disease in the public mind, a new understanding of why we fought the Civil War, Thomas Fleming
- The Alice Behind Wonderland, Simon Winchester