This Week's Acquisitions
- Victoria Cross, Anna Lombard, ed. Gail Cunningham (Continuum, 2006). Scholarly edition of Cross' 1901 bestseller, set mostly in India. Cross was one of the pseudonyms of Annie Sophie Cory. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Eliza Parsons, The Castle of Wolfenbach: A German Story, ed. Diane Hoeveler (Valancourt, 2006). New edition of this Gothic novel, first published in 1796, featuring damsels in distress, scary castles, etc. (Desk copy)
- W. H. Mallock, A Romance of the Nineteenth Century (Garland, 1976). Reprint from the "Novels of Faith and Doubt" series of Mallock's 1881 satire on modern religious and sexual attitudes. Received thoroughly outraged reviews at the time. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Thomas W. Laqueur, Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and English Working Class Culture, 1780-1850 (Yale, 1977). Important study of the role of Sunday School education in shaping working class social attitudes, religious beliefs, politics, etc. I've only been looking for an affordable copy of this book since around, oh, 1995 or so. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ann Taves, The Household of Faith: Roman Catholic Devotions in Nineteenth-Century America (Notre Dame, 1990). Prayer books, meditations, shrines, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Robert Michael, A History of Catholic Antisemitism: The Dark Side of the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). A general survey from the beginnings to the modern era. (Amazon)
- Amanda Anderson, The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton, 2001). Different approaches to the practice and ethics of detachment, insofar as it enabled new ways of thinking about both life and literature (e.g., the role of objectivity, Arnoldian "disinterestedness" (4), etc.). (eBay)