This Week's Acquisitions
(It is possible that some books from the Strand entered my possession when I was there a couple of weeks ago.)
- Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins, The Victim of Fancy, ed. Daniel Cook (Pickering & Chatto, 2009). An example of the popular "dangers of women's reading" genre, originally published in 1786. Part of the Chawton House Library series. (Ashgate)
- Mark Valentine, ed., Black Veil & Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths (Wordsworth, 2008). Anthology of late-19th and early-20th c. short stories about detectives whose beat was on the ghoulish side of things, like Carnacki the Ghost Finder. (Strand)
- D. K. Broster, Couching at the Door (Wordsworth, 2007). Edition of Dorothy Broster's horror stories. (Strand)
- E. F. Benson, Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson (Wordsworth, 2012). Big (700+ pages) collection of Benson's horror stories, including one of my all-time favorites, "The Room in the Tower." (Strand)
- Judith Wilt, Women Writers and the Hero of Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Reexamines one of the perennial questions haunting critics of the romance genre: the moral and cultural ramifications of the heroine's quest for the right guy. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Alfred Habegger, Masked: The Life of Anna Leonowens, Schoolmistress at the Court of Siam (Wisconsin, 2014). New critical biography of the governess whose myth-making memoirs gave birth to Anna and the King and The King and I. (Strand)
- Bob Tennant, Corporate Holiness: Pulpit Preaching and the Church of England Missionary Societies, 1760-1870 (Oxford, 2013). Role of sermon rhetoric in shaping missionary communities and praxis. (Strand)
- David Livingstone, Dealing with Darwin: Place, Politics, and Rhetoric in Religious Engagements with Evolution (Johns Hopkins, 2014). How Presbyterians in Britain and the Commonwealth tried to come to terms with evolutionary theory in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. (Strand)