This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions

(This week turned out to be rather Catholic.)

• The Lamp: A Popular Journal of General Literature n.s.(Jan.-June 1871).  Bound volume of this cheap Catholic periodical, which contains fiction, poetry, news reports, devotional writing, etc.  (eBay)
• Elizabeth Emery, Romancing the Cathedral: Gothic Architecture in Fin-de-Siecle French Culture (SUNY, 2001).  Analyzes how Huysmans, Proust, and Zola draw on contemporary cultural attitudes to cathedral architecture in the service of larger arguments about religion, art, and politics.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Gene Kellogg, The Vital Tradition: The Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence (Loyola, 1970).  Important older survey of the 19th- and 20th-c. Catholic novel tradition in France, England, and the United States. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Theodore P. Fraser, The Modern Catholic Novel in Europe (Twayne, 1994).  Same topic as above, only with more Europe (Scandinavia and Germany) and less USA.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Thomas Woodman, Faithful Fictions: The Catholic Novel in British Literature (Open University Press, 1991). Still same topic, only all Britain and no Europe (or USA).  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Sophie Heywood, Catholicism and Children's Literature in France: The Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874) (Manchester, 2011).  Study of the work of Sophie Rostopchine, the Countess of Segur, who after a very late start became an extremely popular children's novelist at mid-century.  (Amazon [secondhand])