This Week's Acquisitions
- William Boyd, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay (Bloomsbury, 2016). A photographer's journey through the wars of the twentieth century. (Lift Bridge)
- Frances Knight, Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siecle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age (I. B. Tauris, 2016). Religion in relationship to Aestheticism, urban problems, moral reform, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- G. B. Tennyson, Victorian Devotional Poetry: The Tractarian Mode (Harvard, 1981). Classic study analyzing the poetics, both religious and literary, of the work of Keble, Newman, Isaac Williams, Christina Rossetti, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])