This Week's Acquisitions
- Michael Sims, ed., Frankenstein Dreams: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2017). A new anthology including tales (and some excerpts from novels), mostly by famous authors not automatically associated with SF (e.g., Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kiping, and Edith Nesbit), but also some more familiar examples (H.G. Wells). (Amazon)
- Kirsten Ruther, Angelika Schaser, and Jacqueline van Gent, Gender and Conversion Narratives in the Nineteenth Century: German Mission at Home and Abroad (Routledge, 2015). Analyzes intersections of religion, gender, race, and empire in Germany, Australia, and South Africa. (Amazon [secondhand])