This Week's Acquisitions
- Laura Schwartz, Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women's Emancipation, England 1830-1914 (Manchester, 2013). Examines the role of women in the Freethought movement, as activists and participants, and its relation to debates over suffrage, sexuality, and so forth. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Michael Tomko, Beyond the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien (Bloomsbury, 2015). Works through Coleridge's "willing suspension of disbelief" to argue for "poetic faith," a way of reading that, among other things, demonstrates our ongoing need for the "liberal arts" (149). I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)