This Week's Acquisitions
- Deborah Alcock, Robert Musgrave's Adventure: A Story of Old Geneva (Partridge, n.d.). Historical novel set during the early seventeenth century, with theologian Theodore Beza as one of the main characters. One of Alcock's late novels.
- [Elizabeth Hely Walshe], From Dawn to Dark in Italy: A Tale of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century (American Tract Society, n.d.). The Inquisition, among other things. First published in England in 1864.
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Scotland's Glory and Her Shame..., new ed. (Smith, 1858). Reprint of a popular anti-Catholic chapbook that first appeared in 1782. Very bad poetry indeed. ("Reader, I hope you'll be so kind,/With oversights that here you find,/To pass them by with little din,/Because I'm an unlearned man.")
- Stephen Sykes, John Booty, and Jonathan Knight, eds.,The Study of Anglicanism (Fortress, 1998). Essay collection explaining doctrine, history, liturgy, etc.
- Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson, England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (Oxford, 2002). Surveys representations of Elizabeth I in literature and popular culture from her death to the present day.
- Dennis Denisoff, Aestheticism and Sexual Parody, 1840-1940 (Cambridge, 2001). Parody as a strategy for sexual subversion.
- Lynda Adamson, Recreating the Past (Greenwood, 1994). An annotated bibliography of 970 children's/YA novels.
- Rebecca Barnhouse, Recasting the Past: The Middle Ages in Young Adult Literature (Boynton/Cook, 2000). Discussion of major topics, representational strateges, etc.
- Harry E. Shaw, Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot (Cornell, 1999). Realism as a mode of representing being-in-history.
- Ann Rigney, Imperfect Histories: The Elusive Past and the Legacy of Romantic Historicism (Cornell, 2001). Problems of representing the past in Scott, among others.