This Week's Acquisitions

[A number of freebies this week.]

• Mrs. J. B. Webb, Benaiah: A Tale of the Captivity (Frederick Warne and Co., n.d.).  Religious historical novel about the Jews in Babylon. 
• Christopher John Farley, Kingston by Starlight (Three Rivers Press, 2005).  Historical novel about pirate Anne Bonny.
• Michel Faber, The Courage Consort (Harcourt, 2004).  Three novellas.
• E. L. Doctorow, The March (Random House, 2005).  Historical novel about Sherman's March. 
• T. C. Boyle, The Inner Circle (Viking, 2004).  Novel about Kinsey and his Institute.
• J. Hillis Miller, Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels (Harvard, 1965).  Miller in phenomenological mode.
• Archibald C. Coolidge, Jr., Charles Dickens as Serial Novelist (Iowa State University Press, 1967).  Examines how serial publication affected the novels' plot structure, character development, etc.
• Hester Ritchie, ed., The Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie; With Forty-Two Additional Letters from Her Father, William Makepeace Thackeray (John Murray, 1924).  Edited by Thackeray Ritchie's daughter.
• Jenny Wormald, ed., Scotland: A History (Oxford, 2005).  Survey of, er, Scottish history.
• Peter Hanns Reill and Ellen Judy Wilson, eds., Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, rev. ed. (Facts on File, 2004).  Reference work.
• Walter Farquhar Hook (and others), nine pamphlets and sermons on various issues (1841-57).  Hook was an important early associate of the Tractarians; more information at Leodis.
• R. N. Swanson, ed., The Church Retrospective (Boydell Press, 1997).  Essays on commemorations, ecclesiastical histories, historical thinking, etc.
• W. R. Ward, The Protestant Evangelical Awakening (1992; Cambridge, 1996).  Important comparative study.