This Week's Acquisitions
- John Klima, ed., Happily Ever After (Night Shade, 2011). Another anthology of revisionist fairy tales. (B&N)
- David Duff, Romanticism and the Uses of Genre (Oxford, 2009). Development of the concept of literary genre in Romantic theory and practice. (OUP)
- Emmet Larkin, The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland and the Fall of Parnell, 1888-1891 (North Carolina, 1979). Another volume of Larkin's standard history of the RCC in Ireland, this one covering the collapse of Charles Stewart Parnell's political career in the wake of revelations about his adulterous relationship with Katherine O'Shea. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Benjamin John King, Newman and the Alexandrian Fathers: Shaping Doctrine in Nineteenth-Century England (OUP, 2009). Newman's use of the Fathers in his theological work in both his Anglican and Catholic phases. (OUP)
- Rowan Strong, Anglicanism and the British Empire, c. 1700-1850 (OUP, 2007). Some Christians abroad, as it were. The role of the CofE in the colonies. (OUP)