This Week's Acquisitions
- James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia (Mysterious Press, 2006). Reprint of Ellroy's bestselling noir about the famous unsolved murder.
- Rohan Kriwaczek, An Incomplete History of the Art of the Funerary Violins (Overlook, 2006). "Study" of the (non-existent) Protestant practice of using violins to accompany funeral services, and the disappearance of same.
- D. C. Douglas, English Scholars, 1660-1730 (Eyre & Spottiswode, 1951). Reprint of Douglas' 1939 study of early modern antiquarians.
- V. Norskov Olsen, John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church (U of California P, 1973). Important study of Foxe's ecclesiology, etc.
- Alain Cabantous, Blasphemy: Impious Speech in the West from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (Columbia, 2002). Blasphemy laws, blasphemous acts, and punishments for blaspheming.
- John Hedley Brooke and Geoffrey Cantor, Reconstructing Nature: The Engagement of Science and Religion (Oxford, 2000). Critical overview of history vs. science debates.
- Elizabeth A. Fay, Becoming Wordsworthian: A Performative Aesthetics (Massachusetts, 1995). The collaboration between William and Dorothy Wordsworth.