The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil (Vintage, 2004).  Affair + China = superficial young woman's voyage to self-discovery.  (Barnes & Noble)
  • Thomas Vargish, The Providential Aesthetic in Victorian Fiction (U of Virginia Press, 1985).  Theological underpinnings of Victorian narrative theory & practice.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • R. P. Blakeney, Romanism, Tridentine, and Vatican, Refuted: Or No End of Controversy in the Church of Rome.  A Reply to Milner (James Miller, 1873).  Very belated response to John Milner's The End of Religious Controversy (1818).  Blakeney, an indefatigable anti-Catholic controversialist, still has some sway in contemporary fundamentalism.  (eBay)
  • Robert Southey, The Book of the Church (J. R. Dunham, 1844).  US reprint of the 5th ed.  (eBay)
  • The Christian Treasury, Containing Contributions from Ministers and Members of Various Evangelical Denominations (1847).  A Protestant religious annual.  (eBay)
  • Gospel Standard (1861).  Bound volume of a Scottish religious magazine.  (eBay)
  • Stephen Prickett, Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation (Cambridge, 1988).  Interface between Biblical and literary interpretation in 19th-c. Europe.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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