This Week's Acquisitions
- William Donaldson, Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland: Language, Fiction, and the Press (Aberdeen, 1986). Covers journalism, religious and moral fiction, the "Kailyard school," etc. (eBay)
- Dorothy J. Hale, Social Formalism: The Novel in Theory from Henry James to the Present (Stanford, 1998). Argues that twentieth-century theories of the novel are, for all intents and purposes, one long argument with Henry James. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Kyla Madden, Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858 (McGill-Queen's, 2005). Uses religious tensions in one small parish to raise questions about our understanding of Protestant-Catholic relations in nineteenth-century Ireland. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Dominic Erdozain, The Soul of Doubt: Roots of Unbelief from Luther to Marx (Oxford, 2015). Analyzes how religious doubt emerges from within, rather than without, Christian thinking, insisting that internal tensions have been more important to the secularization process than external (e.g., science). (Amazon)