This Week's Acquisitions
- The Churchman's Companion, vols. 39-40 (1866). Two volumes of this popular Anglican periodical, featuring a smorgasboard of articles, serial fiction, and poetry. (eBay)
- David Finkelstein, The House of Blackwood: Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era (Penn State, 2002). Archival study of the Blackwood publishing house and its handling of authors like Margaret Oliphant and Charles Reade. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey, eds., Women, Dissent, and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 (Oxford, 2011). Transatlantic religious dissent and abolitionism, including essays on historiographical issues, Martha Gurney, Elizabeth Heyrick, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Keith A. Francis and William Gibson, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689-1901 (Oxford, 2012). Everything you wanted to know about the early modern/modern sermon but were probably too terrified to ask; includes evangelicals, Catholics, skeptics, preaching methods, sermons and politics, etc. For some reason, Amazon had this knocked down to $25; they appear to have changed their minds about that price. (Amazon)