This Last Few Weeks' Acquisitions
- Frederika MacDonald, Nathaniel Vaughan: Priest and Man (Asa K. Butts, 1874). US reprint of novel about an Anglican priest suffering from increasing religious doubt.
- Mrs. J. Sadlier, trans., Ten Stories from the French of Balleydier (Sadlier, 1866). Catholic didactic tales for children.
- Marly; or, a Planter's Life in Jamaica, ed. Karina Williamson (Macmillan Caribbean, 2005). Scholarly edition of an anonymous pro-slavery novel, following the experiences of a young man trying to regain his property. First published in 1828.
- Varley O'Connor, The Welsh Fasting Girl (Bellevue, 2019). Historical novel about an American journalist investigating Sarah Jacobs.
- Matthew Plampin, Mrs. Whistler (Borough, 2019). Historical novel about Maud Franklin during Whistler's lawsuit against John Ruskin.
- Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead, 2019). First installment in a fantasy trilogy about a man's quest for a mysterious child, and its repercussions.
- David Ceri Jones, Boyd Stanley Schlenther, Eryn Mant White, The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811 (University of Wales, 2016). Studies the branch of Methodism associated with George Whitefield and its influence.
- Todd Webb, Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec (McGill-Queen's, 2013). Complex international (and interpenetrating) relationships between the British and Canadian Methodist churches.
- Mary Hilton, Women and the Shaping of the Nation's Young: Education and Public Doctrine in Britain 1750-1850 (Ashgate, 2007). How domestic pedagogy in particular was linked to the nation's moral, political, and spiritual health.
- Valerie Grosvenor Myer, Charlotte Bronte: Truculent Spirit (Barnes and Noble, 1987). Literary study with emphasis on intellectual and religious influences.
- Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner, eds., Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue (Ohio, 2019). Expanded papers based on a conference at Baylor in 2015. (I'm in here.)
- Allan Hepburn, ed., Troubled Legacies: Narrative and Inheritance (Toronto, 2007). Essays analyzing the inheritance trope in relationship to religion, the Gothic, national identity, gender, etc.
- Sarah Graham, ed., A History of the Bildungsroman (Cambridge, 2019). Essay collection covering the bildungsroman from its beginnings to the present. (I'm reviewing this for Choice.)