This Week's Acquisitions
- Tim Powers, Hide Me Among the Graves (William Morrow, 2012). Neo-Victorian historical novel involving John Polidori, vampires, Pre-Raphaelites, and, er, Pre-Raphaelite vampires. (Hey, it's Tim Powers.) (Amazon)
- Mark Dunn, Under the Harrow (MacAdam/Cage, 2010). Bizarre neo-Victorian utopian community discovers that things are not entirely as they seem. (Amazon)
- Euan Cameron, Enchanted Europe: Superstition, Reason, & Religion, 1250-1750 (Oxford, 2010). Studies the shifting meanings of "superstition" in the context of the so-called "disenchantment of the world." (Amazon)
- Andrew A. Bonar and Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Narrative of a Mission of Enquiry to the Jews in 1839 (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1845). Evangelical travel narrative examining the condition of the Jews across the globe, with the intent of assessing the prospects of converting them (amongst other things). (eBay)