This Week's Acquisitions
- Clare Pettitt, Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire (Harvard, 2007). Analyzes Henry Stanley's search for Livingstone in its religious and political context. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Diane Hoeveler, The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780-1880 (Wales, 2014). Focuses in particular on anti-Catholic tropes in the nineteenth-century equivalent of pulp fiction (chapbooks, for example). (Review copy)
- Patrick Leary, The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London (British Library, 2010). A study of the interplay between the weekly Punch staff meetings and the larger currents of Victorian publishing. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Henning Graf Reventlow, History of Biblical Interpretation, Vol. IV: From the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century, trans. Leo G. Perdue (Society of Biblical Literature, 2010). Survey of the major critics (mostly German), covering topics like Deism, historicism, Higher Criticism, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])