This Week's Acquisitions
- Laura Fish, Strange Music (Random House, 2009). Novel linking Elizabeth Barrett Browning's experiences to those of two woman (one a former slave) on her family's plantation in Jamaica. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Dara Horn, In the Image (Norton, 2003). The multi-generational narrative crosses the lives of Jewish families in Vienna and the United States. (eBay)
- Robert Crawford, The Bard: A Biography (Princeton, 2008). Most recent biography of Robert Burns. (eBay)
- Robert E. Sullivan, Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power (Harvard, 2009). Study (with a highly critical attitude) of the historian-politician. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Erik Sidenvall, After Anti-Catholicism? John Henry Newman and Protestant Britain, 1845--c. 1890 (T. & T. Clark, 2006). Argues that the death of Victorian anti-Catholicism has been exaggerated. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John Drury, Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and Their Meanings (Yale, 2002). Introduction to the theological interpretation of religious painting, emphasizing the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. (eBay)