This Week's Acquisitions
- Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury, 2010). A trio of men explore what it means to be a Jew in contemporary London. (Lift Bridge)
- Carolyn Sigler, Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice (UP of Kentucky, 1997). Anthology of nineteenth- and twentieth-century reworkings. (eBay)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, Major Poems and Selected Prose, ed. Jerome McGann (Yale, 2004). Scholarly edition. (eBay)
- Anne H. Stevens, British Historical Fiction before Scott (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Studies work by Thomas Leland, Clara Reeve, Sophia Lee, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Richard D. Altick, The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibitions, 1600-1862 (Belknap, 1978). Massive history of all things "to be seen" in London, from zoos to caricatures. (Donated)
- Mark Smith and Stephen D. Taylor, eds., Evangelicalism in the Church of England. c. 1790-1890 (Boydell, 2004). Collection of primary texts, including a diary by Francis Chavasse, documents on the Blagdon controversy, and charges from Bishops Henry Ryder and J. C. Ryle. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Donald L. Kinzer, Episode in Anti-Catholicism: The American Protective Association (Washington, 1964). Tracks the history of the late nineteenth-century anti-Catholic organization. (eBay)
- Michael R. Darby, The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Brill, 2010). Studies the evangelical efforts of converted Jews, as well as the Christian organizations that supported them. (Review copy)