This Week's Acquisitions
- George H. Miles, The Truce of God: A Tale of the Eleventh Century (John Murphy, [1871]). Catholic historical novel about Pope Gregory VII's struggles with Henry IV; intended as an allegory of sorts for Pius IX's response to the Risorgimento. (AbeBooks)
- Charlotte Yonge, Abbeychurch/The Castle-Builders (Garland, 1976). "Novels of Faith and Doubt" reprint of two short novels (on subjects like confirmation) by the Anglo-Catholic author. (eBay)
- James Britten, ed., The Catholic's Library of Tales and Poems (Catholic Truth Society, 1886). 1st volume of the anthology I also posted last week, featuring a mix of contemporary Catholic authors alongside non-Catholics who could be "read" that way. (AbeBooks)
- Stevie Davies, Awakening (Parthian, 2013). In the mid-19th c., two sisters respond to the post-Darwinian landscape in very different (and traumatic) ways. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jan Kjaerstad, The Discoverer, trans. Barbara Haveland (University of Rochester, 2009). Third volume of Kjaerstad's Jonas Wergeland trilogy, this time about the Norwegian celebrity trying to make sense of his life after leaving jail. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, vol. IXa (Catholic Truth Society, 1890). A pretty random assortment of historical tracts, controversial essays, and short stories. (AbeBooks)
- Laura E. Thomason, The Matrimonial Trap: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Redefine Marriage (Bucknell, 2013). How women reconceived their sense of self in the context of marriage and other forms of relationship; authors covered include Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Chapone, Eliza Haywood, and Sarah Scott. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Catherine Delafield, Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Ashgate, 2009). Studies the interrelationship of the diary narrative and multiple novel genres (e.g., the sensation novel). (Amazon [secondhand])