This Week's Acquisitions
- Cecilia Mary Caddell, Lost Genoveffa: Or, the Spouse of the Madonna. A Tale of Brittany (D. & J. Sadlier, 1856). Catholic didactic tale about a young girl whose mother is forced to abandon her when her husband is wrongly imprisoned. (eBay)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, ed. Ann-Barbara Graff (Valancourt, 2010). Reprint of the first edition of Bulwer-Lytton's bestseller. (Amazon)
- Pauline Hopkins, Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Oxford, 1991). Begins in the late eighteenth-c., but focuses on the experiences of African-American women in the postbellum USA. (Free book table)
- Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing (Viking, 2011). Historical novel set in colonial America about the challenges facing Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck. (BOMC)
- Maria Purves, The Gothic and Catholicism: Religion, Cultural Exchange and the Popular Novel, 1785-1829 (University of Wales, 2010). Argues for the existence of a Catholic (and not anti-Catholic) Gothic in the early nineteenth c. (Review copy)
- Mieke Bal, Loving Yusuf: Conceptual Travels from Present to Past (Chicago, 2008). Adaptations and refractions of the Joseph and Potiphar narrative. (Review copy)
- Gregory S. Jackson, The Word and Its Witness: The Spiritualization of American Realism (Chicago, 2009). Studies the practice of "homiletic narrative" in nineteenth- and early-twentieth century American evangelical culture. (Review copy)
- Theodore Ziolkowski, Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief (Chicago, 2007). Focuses on literary culture in Europe after WWI. (Review copy)
- David Glover, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (Duke, 1996). Primarily analyzes Dracula in the context of late-19th c. debates over Irish nationalism, sexuality, degeneration theory, etc. (eBay)
- Stephen R. Haynes, Reluctant Witnesses: Jews and the Christian Imagination (Westminster John Knox, 1995). Historical account of the belief in the "witness-people myth"--that is, that Jewish survival and suffering testifies to the truth of the Bible. (eBay)
- Stephen Brown, SJ, Catalogue of Novels and Tales by Catholic Writers, 4th ed. (Central Catholic Library, 1930). Still one of the most useful bibliographies for tracking down 19th-c. Catholic fiction, although it's not exhaustive. (AbeBooks)