This Week's Acquisitions
(I am determined to get Book Two out of here, darn it. Hence lack of blogging. But not lack of acquisitions! Also, books as payment-in-kind from Cambridge, which is always nice.)
- Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching (Talese, 2009). Twins grow up in what appears to be a haunted house. (Amazon [secondhand])
- D. J. Taylor, Derby Day (Pegasus, 2011). Neo-Victorian historical/mystery novel set around the Derby at Epsom Downs, featuring the detective from Taylor's Kept. (Lift Bridge)
- Mike Goode, Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History, 1790-1890 (CUP, 2009). Nineteenth-century masculinities and the formation of modern historical thought, both in historiography proper and historical fiction. (CUP)
- Michael Wheeler, St. John and the Victorians (CUP, 2012). Studies how the Victorians appropriated, rewrote, and thought about the Gospel of St. John, in a number of contexts. (CUP)
- Devon Fisher, Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature: Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Emergence of Secular Culture (Ashgate, 2012). Examines how saints proliferated in Tractarian, Roman Catholic, and Protestant texts, and asks how they shaped thinking about the secularism that emerged from nineteenth-century religious pluralism. (Ashgate, and thank goodness for author's discounts)
- Lee Palmer Wandel, The Eucharist in the Reformation (CUP, 2005). Debates about the Eucharist from multiple theological perspectives, Catholic to Lutheran to Reformed. (CUP)
- Colin Kidd, The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000 (CUP, 2006). How the Bible helped form modern concepts of racial difference. (CUP)