This (Last) Week's (Slightly Delayed) Acquisitions
- Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter (Harcourt, 2008). Feminist Emily Faithfull finds herself mixed up in a friend's affair. (eBay)
- Jeff Rackham, The Rag and Bone Shop (Penguin, 2002). Dickens' relationship with actress Ellen Ternan. (eBay)
- Heather Henderson, The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative (Cornell, 1989). How Biblical narratives shaped nineteenth-century self-representation. (Amazon [secondhand])
- James Raven, ed., Free Print and Noncommercial Publishing Since 1700 (Ashgate, 2000). Essays on the Religious Tract Society and similar organizations. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, and Visions (Princeton, 1999). Analyzes competing narratives of what religious experience is and how it should be discussed. (Basilea Books)
- Stephen D. O'Leary, Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric (Oxford, 1998). Constructs a theory of apocalyptic rhetoric by drawing on everything from the Bible to contemporary fundamentalism. (Amazon [secondhand])