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)