This Week's Acquisitions
- [Fanny Taylor], A Pearl in Dark Waters: A Tale of the Times of Blessed Margaret Mary (P. J. Kenedy, 1891). US reprint of this Catholic historical novel, set during the life of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. The novelist, Fanny Taylor, was also known as Mother Magdalen Taylor, the co-founder of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God. (eBay)
- David Maine, Monster, 1959 (St. Martin's Griffin, 2009). US government accidentally produces very odd, very large creature; the narrative revisits classic B-movie tropes. (Amazon)
- Jim Crace, Gift of Stones (Harper, 1996). (Pre)historical novel: Stone Age slowly gives way to the Bronze Age. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Sandro Jung, The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode (Lehigh, 2009). The intentional fragment in eighteenth-century poetry. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Mary Wilson Carpenter, George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History (Ohio, 1986). Studies the influence of popular apocalyptics on Eliot's fiction. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Richard Carwardine, Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and the United States, 1790-1865 (Greenwood, 1978). Important study of the early revivalist preachers. (Amazon [secondhand])