The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Benjamin Black, Wolf on a String (Henry Holt, 2017).  John Banville writing under his mystery novelist pseudonym.  At the end of the sixteenth century, a man undertakes a murder investigation for Rudolf II.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben, Neo-Victorian Humor: Comic Subversions and Unlaughter in Contemporary Historical Re-Visions (Brill, 2017).  Collection of essays on humor (frequently of the dark/gallows variety) in steampunk, fiction, film, etc.  I have an essay in here.  (Author's copy)
  • John Henry Newman, Tracts for the Times, ed. James Tolhurst (Notre Dame, 2013).  Part of Notre Dame's ongoing scholarly edition of Newman's works, here his contributions to the famous "Tracts for the Times" while still an Anglican.  (Notre Dame)
  • Ian Ker, Newman and Conversion (Notre Dame, 1997).  Collection of essays on how Newman converted, what he thought about conversion, the implications of his conversion, etc.  (Notre Dame)
  • Lincoln A. Mullen, The Chance of Salvation: A History of Conversion in America (Harvard, 2017).  Different forms of and attitudes to conversion, looking at different denominations, the role of missions, conversion and race, etc.  (Amazon)
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