This Week's Acquisitions
- Elizabeth Wheeler, The Great Beyond: A Jewish Story, 11th ed. (Heywood, n.d.). Wheeler published a number of Jewish conversion novels in the 1890s, some of them under the initials "E.W."
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The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany (RTS, 1869). One of the Religious Tract Society's annuals, featuring various "improving" articles and poems.
- Tim Powers, The Anubis Gates (Ace, 1997). Time travel! British Romantic poets!
- Hari Kunzru, The Impressionist (Dutton, 2002). A young man--half-Indian, half-English--must reinvent himself over and over again in the last years of the Raj.
- Darin Strauss, Chang and Eng (Plume, 2001). Based on the real-life Siamese twins who became staples of the international freak-show circuit.
- Sir W. S. R. Cockburn, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew; With a Concise History of the Corruptions, Usurpations, and Anti-Social Effects of Romanism (Parker, 1840). An attack on the Maynooth Grant.
- David Constantine, Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2001). Tries to rescue Hamilton from his primary claim to posthumous fame as the man cuckolded by Lord Nelson.
- Roxane C. Murph, The Wars of the Roses in Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, 1440-1994 (Greenwood, 1995). Exactly what it sounds like.
- Margaret Scanlan, Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction (Princeton, 1990). Irish Troubles, nuclear warfare, etc.
- John Maynard, Victorian Discourses on Sexuality and Religion (Cambridge, 1993). Clough, Kingsley, Patmore, Hardy.
- S. J. Connolly, Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845 (Gill and Macmillan, 1982). Examines the religious and cultural functions of Irish Catholicism, especially the Church's attempts to moderate and regulate popular traditions.
- Frances Spalding, Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians (Phaidon, 1978). Burne-Jones and the Royal Academy. More on Burne-Jones here and here.