This Week's Acquisitions
- The Chapel of the Angels, and Other Tales (Catholic Publication Society, 1873). A collection of Catholic tales, including the titular novella (about a church robbing and its aftermath), two short stories, and two poems. (eBay)
- Stephen Gallagher, The Bedlam Detective (Broadway, 2012). Neo-Victorian mystery/horror involving strange animals and moors (shades of The Hound of the Baskervilles?). (Lift Bridge)
- Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural (Harvard, 2012). Examines 21st-century Gothic as a revisionist and, indeed, possibly religious phenomenon. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Stephen Prickett, Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future (Cambridge, 2009). Study of that rather weighted term "tradition" in an international and interdisciplinary context. (Amazon)
- Alfred Moritz Myers and F. L. Mortimer, The Young Jew: A History of Alfred Moritz Myers, Adapted for Children (American Sunday-School Union, 1848). A kiddified version of Myers' conversion narrative Both One in Christ (1838). (eBay)
- S. Karly Kehoe, Creating a Scottish Church: Catholicism, Gender, and Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century Scotland (Manchester, 2010). How the Catholic Church strengthened its position in a decidedly hostile national context. (Amazon)
- Julia Markus, J. Anthony Froude: The Last Undiscovered Great Victorian (Scribner, 2005). Biography of the historian, essayist, and controversialist; there's another biography scheduled for this year, incidentally, so perhaps Froude is being (re)discovered after all. (Amazon [secondhand])