The Little Professor

This Week's Month's Acquisitions

Some books arrived while I was in CA.  Amazing how that happens! I had absolutely nothing to with this! They just...appeared!

  • William H. G. Kingston, The Lily of Leyden (SPCK, n.d.).  Religions historical novel set during the Siege of Leyden in 1574.  (eBay)
  • J. Bunbury, Unselfishness; Or, the Miner's Daughter (SPCK, 1850).  An SPCK tract about a young girl who winds up working in the coal mines.  (eBay)
  • A. C. Clarke, Fabiola's Sisters: A Tale of the Christian Heroines Martyred at Carthage in the Commencement of the Third Century (Benziger, 1898).  Catholic historical novel about St. Perpetua, intended as a semi-sequel to Wiseman's better-known Fabiola.  (eBay)
  • Tales Illustrating Church History.  Vol. V: Eastern and Northern Europe (James Parker, 1871).  Collection of five High Church novellas about Christians in the early and Greek Orthodox churches (martyrdom, conversion, etc.).  (eBay)
  • Honore de Balzac, The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, trans. Jordan Stump (NYRB, 2018).  New translation of Balzac's epistolary novel following the experiences of two women as they lead very different married lives.  (Amazon)
  • Jean D'Ormesson, The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, A History, trans. Barbara Bray (NYRB, 2018).  Reprint of D'Ormesson's imaginary history of the rise and fall of an ancient empire.  (Chaucer Books)
  • Michael Punke, The Revenant (Picador, 2002).  Exit, chewed by a bear.  (Barnes & Noble)
  • Jane Urquhart, The Night Stages (FSG, 2015).  An ex-army pilot reflects on love and loss as she travels from Ireland to New York.  (Chaucer Books)
  • Kim Newman, The Man from the Diogenes Club (Titan, 2018).  Collection of stories about Richard Jepherson, a somewhat unconventional private detective who deals with the undead and assorted other ghoulies.  (Amazon)
  • Ellen Datlow, ed., Mad Hatters and March Hares (TOR, 2018).  New short story collection referencing, to nobody's shock, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  (Amazon)
  • Anthony O'Neill, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Seek (Black & White, 2017).  Utterson tries to figure out who this gentleman claiming to be Dr. Jekyll might be.  (Amazon)
  • Amanda Paxton, Willful Submission: Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry (Virginia, 2017).  The role of divinely-inflicted suffering, including martyrdom.  (Amazon)
  • Frank Q. Christianson and Leslee Thorne-Murphy, eds., Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850-1920 (Indiana, 2017).  Telling stories about charity, including charity and class, charity in the British Empire, women's charity, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Sarah Longair and John McAleer, eds., Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience (Manchester, 2012).  Essay collection about museums in Britain and the Empire, including the roles of curators, scientific collections, specific exhibits, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Anne Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages (Penn State, 1997).  Emergence of the iconography, prayers, the beads, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Joanna Lewis, Empire of Sentiment: The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism (Cambridge, 2018).  Uses Livingstone to analyze how the Victorians narrated their feelings about the Empire.  (Amazon)
  • Jon Miller, Missionary Zeal and Institutional Control: Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917 (Eerdmans, 2003).  Interplay among German Protestant missionaries, the indigenous peoples, and the overarching missionary organization trying to keep control.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Jane Samson, Race and Redemption: British Missionaries Encounter Pacific Peoples, 1797-1920 (Eerdmans, 2017).  Examines the "theological anthropology" underlying missionary work and its implications.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Bridget Heal, The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Early Modern Germany: Protestant and Catholic Piety, 1500-1648 (Cambridge, 2007).  Analyzes shifting approaches to Marian devotion in the wake of the Reformation.  (Amazon)
  • Lisa McClain, Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation and Lived Experience among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642 (Routledge, 2004).  How recusants developed and perpetuated Catholic faith and culture under proscription.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Alice Dailey, The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution (Notre Dame, 2012).  Changing martyrological narratives and their significance for the Catholic community in particular.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Bennett Zon, The English Plainchant Revival (Oxford, 1999).  How both Anglicans and Catholics became interested in (and/or skeptical of) plainchant from the eighteenth century onward.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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