This Week's Acquisitions
- Daniel White, From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print and Modernity in Early British India, 1793-1835 (Johns Hopkins, 2013). Analyzes the circuit of print exchange between Calcutta and London in the early nineteenth century, focusing on responses to and appropriations of Hinduism. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Gregory M. Pfitzer, History Repeating Itself: The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right (Massachussetts, 2014). Examines how nineteenth-century historical texts are being repackaged for a contemporary Christian audience, particularly those in the home school movement. (I noticed this phenomenon when I was working on Book Two--there's a market for reprints of Victorian religious fiction.) (Amazon)