The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Rev. T[homas] T[hellusson] Carter, M.A., The Distinctions Between the Church of England and the Church of Rome: Lecture II (What Are We to Believe), Lecture III (What is Transubstantiation?), Lecture IV (The Traditionary Customs of the Church) (John Henry Parker and J. B. Brown, [1851]).  Part of a series of High Church lectures, written in the wake of the so-called "Papal Aggression."  More of Carter's writings are available at Project Canterbury; there's a biographical sketch at A History of Clewer. 
  • Rick Moody, The Diviners (Little, Brown, 2005).  Misadventures in Hollywood around the time of the 2000 election.
  • Jennifer Palmgren and Lorretta M. Holloway, eds., Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  Includes a truly exciting essay by *cough* yours truly. 
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