This Week's Acquisitions

[W.] Gordon-Stables, Alfred the Great; Or, 'Twixt Dawn and Daylight. A Tale (Shaw, n.d.). A group of sea-farers tell each other stories from the Middle Ages, with the lengthiest being an account of Alfred the Great. More on the prolific Gordon-Stables here.
The Bible Class Magazine 4 (1851). Christian magazine for children, featuring articles on topics ranging from the telegraph to Beau Brummel (!).
Evelyn Everett-Green, The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London (Nelson, n.d.). Plague and the Fire of London--all in one novel!
[Deborah Alcock], The Czar: A Tale of the Time of the First Napoleon (Nelson, n.d.). Napoleon's invasion of Russia, plus Protestantism.
Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Pirate Novels: Fictions of Nation Building in Spanish America (Duke, 1999). Uses nineteenth-century historical novels about piracy to examine concepts of national identity.
Margaret Reid, Cultural Secrets as Narrative Form: Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century America (Ohio, 2004). "American national romance" (Cooper, Hawthorne, Wister).
Michael Zink, The Enchantment of the Middle Ages, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Johns Hopkins, 1998). Uses the songs of the troubadours to examine the development of medieval studies and "medievalism" more generally.
Timothy Larsen, Contested Christianity: The Political and Social Contexts of Victorian Theology (Baylor, 2004). Offers case studies of Victorian theology "in action," with emphasis on evangelical, Dissenting and popular theology.