This Week's Acquisitions
- Sarah Green, Romance Readers and Romance Writers, ed. Christopher Goulding (Pickering & Chatto, 2010). Despite the title, this is not a work of contemporary literary history--it's a relatively well-known satire of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel writing, first published in 1810. (Gift)
- Rudyard Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's Tales of Horror and Fantasy (Pegasus, 2008). As the title says. (Barnes & Noble)
- Hilda Graef w/Thomas Thompson, Mary: A History of Doctrine and Devotion (Christian Classics, 2009). Updated edition of a classic study. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David B. Ruderman, Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (Pennsylvania, 2007). Examines the Christian appropriation of Jewish scholarship by focusing on the unsuccessful career of a convert, Moses Marcus. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Khim Harris, Evangelicals and Education: Evangelical Anglicans and Middle-Class Education in Nineteenth-Century England (Paternoster, 2004). Activism, reform, school boards, pedagogy, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- James Pereiro, Cardinal Manning: From Anglican Archdeacon to Council Father at Vatican I (Gracewing, 2008). A revised edition of Pereiro's biography. (Gift)