This Week's Acquisitions
(Yay for Amazon gift cards.)
- Evan S. Connell, Deus Lo Volt! A Chronicle of the Crusades (Counterpoint, 2001). Fictionalized medieval chronicle, related by a twelfth-century nobleman. (Houghton Books)
- Daphne Du Maurier, The Doll: The Lost Short Stories (William Morrow, 2011). Collection of Du Maurier's earliest short fiction. (BOMC)
- Jane Martin, Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England (Leicester, 1998). Women's educational campaigns, political interventions, work on school boards, and the like. (Greenwood Books)
- Charles LaPorte, Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible (Virginia, 2011). Analyzes how shifts in Victorian Biblical interpretation, especially the effects of German Higher Criticism shaped contemporary poetry; cf. E. S. Shaffer's 'Kubla Khan' and the Fall of Jerusalem. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Patrick Brantlinger, Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians (Cornell, 2011). Role of racial theories in shaping the theory and practice of imperialism. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Simon Goldhill, Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity (Cambridge, 2011). Wide-ranging study of how the Victorians used the classics to comment on, construct, and critique their own culture. (Amazon)
- Emile de Bonnechose, Reformers before the Reformation / George Borrow, The Bible in Spain / Nicholas Murray, The Decline of Popery and Its Causes (various). A nineteenth-century owner's bound collection of various Protestant texts published between 1843-51. (eBay)
- E. I. Watkin, Roman Catholicism in England from the Reformation to 1950 (Oxford, 1957). An older general introductory survey. (eBay)
- Barbara Walsh, Roman Catholic Nuns in England and Wales 1800-1937: A Social History (Irish Acadeic, 2002). Rise and spread of convents in the nineteeth century, along with their management, social work, relations with the hierarchy, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jonathan Schorsch, Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World (Cambridge, 2004). History of how Sephardim perceived racial difference, participated in the slave trade, and generally dealt with Blacks during the period of early modern imperial expansion. (Amazon [secondhand])