This Week's Acquisitions
- Emily Sarah Holt, Joyce Morrell's Harvest; Or, the Annals of Selwick Hall: A Story of the Reign of Elizabeth (Shaw, n.d. but probably 1890s). Multi-narrator "diary" which links to several other Holt novels, including Lettice Eden and It Might Have Been.
- F[lorence] M[orse] Kingsley, Titus: A Comrade of the Cross: A Tale of the Christ (Hodder and Stoughton, 1899). Novel about the birth of Christianity. Robert Rockaway and Arnon Gutfeld put the novel in some unsavory company (Google cache).
- Emma Jane Worboise, Father Fabian: The Monk of Malham Tower (Clarke, c. 1876). A very Low Church tale about the Jesuits. Not exactly pro-Catholic, obviously. For more on Worboise, including some e-texts, see here.
- John Mason Neale, Tales of Christian Heroism and The Sea-Tigers (SPCK, 1902). Reprint of High Church historical short stories, many of them based on saints' lives, bound with a novel about medieval Nestorianism. Lots more Neale at Project Canterbury and the Cyberhymnal.
- Patricia Finney, Gloriana's Torch (St. Martin's, 2003). Third in Finney's excellent series of Elizabethan novels, this one set at the time of the Armada. I also recommend Firedrake's Eye and Unicorn's Blood.
- Hayden Gabriel, Where the Light Remains (Touchstone, 2003). A parallel-plot historical novel set in Cornwall, detailing the experiences of two women in 1886 and 1986. Also known as The Quickening Ground.
- Samuel Pufendorf, The Whole Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature (Liberty Fund, 2002). Another entry in the Liberty Fund's excellent "Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics" series.
- Samuel Pufendorf, Of the Nature and Qualification of Religion in Reference to Civil Society (Liberty Fund, 2002). See above.
- Lynda Adamson, World Historical Fiction: An Annotated Guide to Novels for Adults and Young Adults (Oryx, 1998). Lists approximately 6,000 novels, with a number of useful indices (character, subject, etc.).
- Nancy Armstrong, Fiction in the Age of Photography: The Legacy of British Realism (Harvard, 1999). How the new technology transformed older models of literary realism. See also these links to Lewis Carroll's photography, some examples of Julia Margaret Cameron's photography at the George Eastman House, and Thomas Prasch's "uncomprehensive" bibliography of Victorian photography.
- Roxane C. Murph, The English Civil War Through the Restoration in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1625-1999 (Greenwood, 2000). Over 900 poems, novels, and plays on the topic.
- H. Porter Abbott. Diary Fiction: Writing as Action (Cornell, 1984). Comparative study examining how the diary novel reflects on the writing process itself.
- Elizabeth Ann Beaulieu, Black Women Writers and the American Neo-Slave Narrative: Femininity Unfettered (Greenwood, 1999). Neo-slave narratives and the representation of African-American woman's history. Sherley Anne Williams, Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, etc.
- Herb Wyile, Speculative Fictions: Contemporary Canadian Novelists and the Writing of History (McGill-Queens, 2002). Postcolonial approach to the Canadian historical novel.
- Merrill D. Peterson, John Brown: The Legend Revisited (Virginia, 2002). Intellectual history of the famous abolitionist's cultural image. Peterson has also written similar books on Jefferson and Lincoln.