This Week's Acquisitions
- Eaton Stannard Barrett, The Heroine; Or, Adventures of a Fair Romance Reader (Valancourt, 2011). One of a number of novels--including The Female Quixote, Northanger Abbey, and Romance Readers and Romance Writers--satirizing women who interpret reality through the lens of romantic or Gothic fiction. Originally published in 1813. More about the extremely short-lived Barrett here. (Amazon)
- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love: A Novel (Picador, 2007). Catholic girl matures, or tries to, in 60s England. (Lift Bridge)
- Lynn S. Neal, Romancing God: Evangelical Women and Inspirational Fiction (North Carolina, 2006). Study of how evangelical women readers actually interpret Christian romances; a religiously-inflected sequel of sorts to Janice Radway's famous Reading the Romance. (Review copy)
- Laura Mooneyham White, Jane Austen's Anglicanism (Ashgate, 2011). What it says: a study of Austen's work through the lens of Anglican doctrine and ritual. (Review copy)
- Anthony Paul Bale, The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350-1500 (Cambridge, 2010). Different manifestations of anti-Jewish sentiment and their intersections in medieval culture. (Review copy)
- Raymond D. Tumbleson, Catholicism in the English Protestant Imagination: Nationalism, Religion, and Literature, 1660-1745 (Cambridge, 2009). Anti-Catholicism in literature, politics (e.g., the Popish Plot) and theology. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Virginia Raguin, ed., Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538-1850 (Catholic University of America, 2006). Art-historical approach to Catholic self-narration, focusing on the role of sacred objects and texts. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Chiara de Capoa, Old Testament Figures in Art (Getty, 2004). Part of the J. Paul Getty Museum's handy series on how to recognize and interpret religious iconography. (Amazon [secondhand])