This Week's Acquisitions

Chris Cander, Whisper Hollow (Other, 2015). Novel of desire, secrets, and religious fanaticism at the turn of the twentieth century. (Lift Bridge)
Lorri G. Nandrea, Misfit Forms: Paths Not Taken by the British Novel (Fordham, 2015). Analyzes "dead ends" in novelistic form from the eighteenth century onward, suggesting how they might help us re-evaluate the history of the genre. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
James A. Secord, Visions of Science: Books and Readers at the Dawn of the Victorian Age (Chicago, 2015). Analyzes the rhetoric and reception history of a number of significant scientific texts and texts about science: Humphry Davy, Charles Babbage, John Herschel, Mary Somerville, Charles Lyell, George Combe, and Thomas Carlyle. (Amazon)
The Clifton Tracts, vol. III (Dunigan, 1853). US reprint of a UK series of tracts by the Vincentians, on such topics as the Mass, the Reformation, sacraments, etc. Includes one tract with a decent pun in the title ("Know Popery"). (eBay)
Alexandra Walsham, Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700 (Manchester, 2006). History of the theory and practice (or not) of religious toleration during the early modern period, noting the back-and-forthing between Protestants and Catholics on the subject. (eBay)
Lionel Kochan, The Making of Western Jewry, 1600-1819 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Jews re-establishing old or putting down new roots during the early modern period. (eBay)
Josef L. Altholz, The Religious Press in Britain, 1760-1900 (Greenwood, 1989). Important survey of the emergence of religious papers and periodicals of all denominations. (Amazon [secondhand])