This Week's Acquisitions
- Samuel Gordon, Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry (JPS, 1900). US reprint of a novel by a late Victorian Anglo-Jewish author, set mostly among the Jewish working class. Gordon (1871-1927) wrote a range of popular Jewish novels set in England and elsewhere; see here for a brief rundown (and here for his somewhat shadowy family life). (eBay)
- Eliza Lynn Linton, The Autobiography of Christopher Kirkland, ed. Deborah T. Meem and Kate Holterhoff (Victorian Secrets, 2011). New edition of one of the name-droppingest novels ever written, a barely concealed narrative of Linton's own maturation. More on Linton at the Victorian Web and the Orlando Project. (Amazon)
- Kim Newman, Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D'Urbervilles (Titan, 2011). It's Sherlock Holmes...that is, if Moriarty and Sebastian Moran were the heroes. (Um, "heroes.") Newman is probably best known for the Anno Dracula series. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Norman Vance, The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature and Religious Thought (Cambridge, 2009). Reprint of this 1985 study, which deals with the influence of such authors as Arnold, Kingsley, and Thomas Hughes. (Amazon)
- Doreen Rosman, Evangelicals and Culture, 2nd ed. (Pickwick, 2011). Reprint of Rosman's important 1984 history of how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British evangelicals dealt with all aspects of popular culture, from fiction to live entertainment. (Amazon)
- Peter Marshall and Alexandra Walsham, eds., Angels in the Early Modern World (Cambridge, 2006). All aspects of angels (appearances, beliefs about, Biblical roles, etc.) in both Catholic and Protestant thought. (eBay)