This (Early) Week's Acquisitions

(I'm off to the UK for two weeks, so will be incommunicado on my usual posting day.  Also, thanks to the U of Notre Dame for having a closeout sale.)

• Caryl Ferey, Zulu, trans. Howard Curtis (2008; Europa, 2010).  In South Africa, a detective finds himself at odds with an extremely dangerous group of experimental drug-dealers.  The first of Ferey's postcolonial noir novels.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Martin Farquhar Tupper, Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy; To Which Is Added, A Thousand Lines Offered to the World We Live In, with Hactenus, Geraldine, and Miscellaneous Poems (John E. Potter, n.d. [1880s?]).  The complete works of an initially unsuccessful, then very successful, then totally disappeared lawyer-poet. See here (PDF) for an overview. (Book Barn)
• Leith Davis, Music, Postcolonialism, and Gender: The Construction of Irish National Identity, 1725-1874 (Notre Dame, 2005).  Examines how Irish authors developed a theory of national culture based on musical composition, performance, and publication.  (Notre Dame)
• John Henry Newman, Discussions and Arguments on Various Subjects, ed. Gerard Tracey and James Tolhurst (Notre Dame, 2004).  Part of the standard edition of Newman's works, this reprints Newman's 1872 volume of the same time, including The Tamworth Reading Room.  (Notre Dame)
• Colin Barr, Paul Cullen, John Henry Newman, and the Catholic University of Ireland, 1845-1865 (Notre Dame, 2003).  Revisionist account of Newman's role in the Catholic University's founding and governance that pays closer attention to the combative Archbishop (later Cardinal) Cullen's influence.  (Notre Dame)
• Perez Zagorin, How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West (Princeton, 2003).  Examines the role of late-Reformation and early-Enlightenment thinkers in theorizing how competing religious traditions might co-exist.  (Autumn Leaves)