This (Last Two) Week's (Selected) Acquisitions

[Had some distractions last week that got in the way of posting.  Also, I received some unexpected books in the mail, a few of which are listed here.]

• Rev. Charles Courtenay, John Snow's Wife and Other Temperance Tales (Jarrold & Sons, n.d.).  Actually slaps together a number of "Jarrold's Half-Hour Tracts" on temperance, featuring tales of drunken women discovering religion and temperance, drunken soldiers discovering religion and temperance, drunken fathers discovering religion and temperance, etc.  (eBay)
• Rev. W. Evans Darby, Out of the Depths: A Temperance Tale (T. Nelson & Sons, 1892).  A boy is rescued from drowning, grows up to become an alcoholic, and eventually converts.  (eBay)
• Jose Saramago, Baltasar and Blimunda, trans. Giovanni Pontiero (Harvest, 1987).  Saramago's historical novel about love in the age of the Inquisition. (freebie)
• David Lambkin, The Hanging Tree (Counterpoint, 1995).  A paleontologist at work in Kenya also finds herself researching the death of an Englishman in the early twentieth century.  (freebie)
• Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel (Penguin, 1989). Reworks the history of twentieth-century India via the framework of the Mahabharata.  (freebie)
• Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (Penguin, 1987).  Young man is simultaneously caught up in the world of radicalism and the world of high society, to his great distress.  (For some reason, I never acquired this particular novel...)  (gift)
• Robert C. Gregg, Shared Stories, Rival Tellings: Early Encounters of Jews, Christians, and Muslims (Oxford, 2015). Analyzes multiple narratives about foundational figures (e.g., Mary, Cain and Abel, etc.) to explore how the Abrahamic religions developed themselves via engagement with shared sources. (gift)
• Eamon Duffy, Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, 3rd ed. (Yale, 2006).  The papacy from the beginnings to Benedict XVI.  (gift)
• Richard Fox Young, ed., India and the Indianness of Christianity (Eerdmans, 2009).  Essays on missionary activity, the role of indigenous believers, responses to Hinduism, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Jonathan Parry, The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, National Identity and Europe, 1830-1886 (Cambridge, 2006).  Liberalism in response to various Continental nationalist movements (e.g.,the Risorgimento), as well as to moral questions about nationhood at home.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Frank Ferguson and Andrew R. Holmes, eds., Revising Robert Burns and Ulster: Literature, Religion and Politics, c. 1770-1920 (Four Courts, 2009).  Focus on the Ulster-Scots tradition, including essays on Samuel Thomson, Presbyterianism and literature, religious fiction, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Timothy Whelan, Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840 (Palgrave, 2016).  A study of a literary network of Nonconformist women poets.  (Amazon [secondhand])