This (Last) Week's Acquisitions
(A bit behind here.)
- Jane Austen, Teenage Writings, ed. Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford, 2017). New edition of Austen's juvenilia. (Free copy)
- Elizabeth Hamilton, The Cottagers of Glenburnie, and Other Educational Writing, ed. Pam Perkins (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2010). New scholarly edition of Hamilton's moral tale, along with excerpts from such works as Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education and Memoirs of the Life of Agrippina. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Midori Yamaguchi, Daughters of the Anglican Clergy: Religion, Gender and Identity in Victorian England (Palgrave, 2014). Examines the role of clergymen's daughters in parish life. (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Jason A. Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity,and the Birth of the Human Sciences (Chicago, 2017). History of the belief that "modernity" is somehow post-magical, taking into account the rise of spiritualism. (Amazon)
- Thomas Albert Howard, Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (Oxford, 2016). Studies the various Reformation commemorations in Germany and discusses their intersection with contemporary debates in Protestant culture. (Amazon [secondhand])