This Week's Acquisitions

(Accumulated  over three weeks, actually.)

• George Croly, Paris in 1815... (Garland, 1977).  Part of the Romantic Contexts series, which reprinted minor poets from the period.  This volume features 788 pages of Croly, in case you were wondering.
• Mrs. William Noy Wilkins, The Slave Son (Nonsuch, 2005).  Reprint of Wilkins' 1854 abolitionist novel, set in Trinidad.
• Matthew Sharpe, Jamestown: A Novel (Soft Skull, 2007).  Another entry in the post-apocalyptic boom.
• Richard Lange, Dead Boys: Stories (Little, Brown, 2007).  Collection of short stories set in Los Angeles.
• A Popular Manual of Church History (Kelly, Piet, and Company, 1876).  Reprint of a Catholic handbook of ecclesiastical history, first published in Britain in the 1850s.
• J. F. C. Harrison, The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism, 1780-1850 (Rutgers, 1979). Prophecy, end times, etc.
• Patrick W. Carey and Joseph T. Lienhard, Biographical Dictionary of Christian Theologians (Hendrickson, 2002).  Amazingly, it's a biographical dictionary of Christian theologians.
• Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford, 2004).  "Living on," in literature and otherwise.
• Peter Brooks, Realist Vision (Yale, 2005).  New study of classical realism.
• Julie Sanders, Adaptation and Appropriation (Routledge, 2005).  Brief overview of current theories.