This Week's Acquisitions
- Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Conquering and to Conquer/The Diary of Brother Bartholomew (Dodd & Mead, n.d.). A twofer: an Early Church novel cast as a memoir and a fictional diary by a medieval monk. More on Charles at the Cyberhymnal.
- "H. G.," True to Her Faith: A Story of Persecuting Times (Gall & Inglis, [1895]). Historical novel about the travails of the Huguenots in the seventeenth century.
- John Dunlop, ed., Memories of Gospel Triumphs Among the Jews During the Victorian Era (Gall & Inglis, 1894). Extensive collection of sermons, biographies, letters, sketches, etc. celebrating the work of the various British missions to the Jews. Enormously useful if you want to discuss nineteenth-century attitudes to Judaism.
- Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love (Anchor, 2000). Parallel-plot historical novel set in 1900 and the present. A young woman explores the relationship between her great-grandparents, an English expatriate and an Egyptian nationalist.
- Thomas M. Disch and Charles Naylor, Neighboring Lives: A Novel (Johns Hopkins, 1991). Thomas Carlyle and neighbors in mid-19th c. Chelsea.
- Alec Vidler, The Modernist Movement in the Roman Church (Gordon, 1976). Classic study of the Roman Catholic Modernist movement (c. 1890-1910), originally published in 1934.
- Peter Morton, The Vital Science: Biology and the Literary Imagination, 1860-1900 (Allen & Unwin, 1984). Darwinism, degeneration, etc.
- Peter Coveney, The Image of Childhood, rev. ed. (Penguin, 1967). Reprint of a survey first published in 1957.
- Linda Hutcheon, Narcissistic Narrative: The Metafictional Paradox (Routledge, 1984). One of Hutcheon's earlier critical studies, devoted to self-reflexive fiction and its effect on the reading process.
- Lois Parkinson Zamora, The Usable Past: The Imagination of History in Recent Fiction of the Americas (Cambridge, 1997). A comparative study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century North & South American historical fiction.