This Week's Acquisitions

(Penn State UP has been having a fire sale.)

• Cecilia Mary Caddell, Blind Agnese; Or, the Little Spouse of the Blessed Sacrament (Kenedy, 1888).  Reprint of a British novel originally published in 1855.  A Catholic didactic tale about a crushingly poor but nevertheless devout little girl.  (eBay)
• A. N. Wilson, A Jealous Ghost (Arrow, 2005).  A.k.a. The Turn of the Screw.   (Amazon [secondhand])
• David A. Brewer, The Afterlife of Character, 1726-1825 (Penn, 2005).  The pre-history of fanfiction, as it were.  (Penn)
• Kathleen Biddick, The Typological Imaginary: Circumcision, Technology, History (Penn, 2003). Christian techniques for separating themselves from Jews.  (Penn)
• Jennifer Schacker, National Dreams: The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England (Penn, 2004).  Studies 19th-c. collections.  (Penn)
• Joseph Leo Koerner, The Reformation of the Image (Chicago, 2004).  The fate of art in the age of Luther.  (O'Gara and Wilson)