This Week's Acquisitions
- The Daughter of Adoption, ed. Michael Scrivener, Yasmin Solomonescu, and Judith Thompson (Broadview, 2013). New edition of Thelwall's 1801 novel set in and after a slave rebellion in Haiti. More about Thelwall here. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Sarah Perry, The Essex Serpent (Serpent's Tail, 2016). Neo-Victorian novel set during the fin-de-siecle, featuring the fraught romance between a female naturalist (skeptical) and a clergyman (believer). (eBay)
- Jeffrey von Arx, ed., Varieties of Ultramontanism (Catholic University of America, 1998). Collection studying the Ultramontanist policies of various cardinals in both Europe and the USA. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Hadley Kruczek-Aaron, Everyday Religion: An Archaeology of Protestant Belief and Practice in the Nineteenth Century (UP of Florida, 2015). Analyzes the domestic goods of the Gerrit Smith family to analyze the relationship between material possessions and religious practice. (Amazon [secondhand])