This Week's Acquisitions
- Bound volume of seven tracts, various authors and publishers, 1820-26. Authors include Henri Malan, Mrs. Sherwood, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna. The volume was owned by a young Georgiana Alice Brooke, who can be spotted on this page. (eBay)
- Mick Jackson, Yuki Chan in Bronte Country (Faber & Faber, 2016). A Japanese visitor to the Haworth area tries to figure out what happened to her mother many years earlier. (Lift Bridge)
- Eileen P. Sullivan, The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism (Notre Dame, 2016). Analyzes the emergence of the American Catholic novel and its religious and cultural influence. (Amazon)
- Patricia Murphy, The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress (Missouri, 2016). Argues that the late-Victorian New Woman was frequently imagined in terms appropriated from Gothic conventions, with variable political results. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King, eds., Receptions of Newman (Oxford, 2015). What it says on the tin: how John Henry Newman has been understood and appropriated across a variety of theological traditions, from his time to the present. (Amazon)
- Libby Schweber, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 (Columbia, 2006). Comparative analysis of the role of statistics in government policy. (Amazon [secondhand])