This Week's Acquisitions

(Whoa!  No, I didn't go bankrupt this week.)

• Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery (Edinburgh, 2001).  Volume in the standard scholarly edition of Scott's work.
• Lucy Newlyn, Reading, Writing, and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (OUP, 2003).  Romantic constructions of reading and readership.
• Willard Thorp, Catholic Novelists in Defense of Their Faith, 1829-1865 (Ayer, 1978).  Reprint of an older study; focuses on American Catholic novels.
• Gail Turley Houston, From Dickens to Dracula: Gothic, Economics, and Victorian Fiction (Cambridge, 2007).  Gothic economics and economic Gothic.
• Suzanne Keen, Empathy and the Novel (OUP, 2007).  Does reading fiction affect how we sympathize with those in the real world?
• Johann Heineccus and George Turnbull, Methodical System of Universal Law With Supplements and a Discourse (Liberty Fund, 2008).  Entry in the Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics series.
• James Moore, trans., The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Liberty Fund, 2008).  Ditto.
• Billie Melman, The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 (OUP, 2006).  Transformations of English historiography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• Paul Bew, Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 (OUP, 2007).  Part of the Oxford History of Modern Europe.
• Angus Hawkins, The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby Volume I: Ascent, 1799-1851 (OUP, 2007).  First volume of the only modern biography.  (If you're wondering just how forgotten Derby is, Mrs. Brown cheerfully neglects to mention that he, not Disraeli, ought to be PM for a good chunk of the film.) 
• Adrian Hastings et al., The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (OUP, 2000).  What everyone thinks about pretty much everything.
• Richard Viladesau, The Triumph of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation (OUP, 2008).  Second volume of Viladesau's study of Christian aesthetics & theology.
• Andrew R. Holmes, The Shaping of Ulster Presbyterian Belief and Practice, 1770-1840 (OUP, 2006).  Development of the Ulster Presbyterian community.
• Christiana de Groot and Marion Ann Taylor, eds., Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible (Society of Biblical Literature, 2007).  Devotes a chapter apiece to significant female exegetes in both Europe and the USA.