This Week's Acquisitions
- Barbara Hofland, Moderation: A Tale (Pomeroy, 1826). US reprint of one of Mrs. Hofland's many moral tales, this one centering on the need for economy in things both literal (money) and figurative (passions). More about Hofland here. (eBay)
- [Annie Webb Peploe], Oliver Wyndham: A Tale of the Great Plague, 4th ed. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1876). A young man finds religion during the Great Plague of London in 1665. First published in 1867. (eBay)
- Kirstie Blair, ed., Poets of the People's Journal: Newspaper Poetry in Victorian Scotland (Association of Scottish Literary Studies, 2016). Collects over one hundred poems published between the 1850s and 1880s in the People's Journal and People's Friend. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Deryck W. Lovegrove, Established Church, Sectarian People: Itinerancy and the Transformation of English Dissent, 1780-1830 (Cambridge, 1988). Study of the logistics of itinerant preaching and its role in consolidating Dissenting communities. (Amazon)
- Danilo Raponi, Religion and Politics in the Risorgimento: Britain and the New Italy, 1861-1875 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). British attempts to make sense of Italian nationalism and its relationship to Catholicism in terms of its own national politics. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Mark Rankin, Christopher Highley, and John N. King, eds., Henry VIII and His Afterlives: Literature, Politics, and Art (Cambridge, 2009). Reactions to Henry VIII from the early modern period to the present, touching on issues such as historiography, gender, film, etc. (Amazon)