This Week's Acquisitions
- [Charles Benjamin Tayler], Arthur and His Mother; Or, the Story of a Child That Belonged to the Church. A Book for Christian Children (Carlton and Lanahan, n.d.). Pirated and revised edition of the second edition of Tayler's didactic novel, changed from Anglican to Methodist in the process (see post below). (eBay)
- Kate O'Brien, That Lady (Virago, 2006). Reprint of O'Brien's historical novel about Ana de Mendoza y de le Cerda, Princess of Eboli. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Christopher Hibbert, King Mob: The Story of Lord George and the London Riots of 1780 (1958; Longmans, 1959). Study of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots, which inspired Dickens' Barnaby Rudge. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Debora Kuller Shuger, The Renaissance Bible: Scholarship, Sacrifice, and Subjectivity (U of California, 1998). Analyzes, among other things, the role of Biblical narrative in shaping early modern selfhood. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Charles Taylor, A Secular Age (Harvard, 2008). Philosophical study of the meanings and origins of secularism and its relationship to modern religious pluralism. (Amazon)