This Week's Acquisitions
- Chas L'Epine, The Devil in a Domino, ed. Simon Stern (Valancourt, 2017). Reprint of a pioneering Jack the Ripper novel, first published in 1897. (Amazon)
- Charles Fanning, The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction, 2nd ed. (Kentucky, 2000). Major authors and genres, from the beginnings to contemporary novelists like Thomas Mallon (I picked this up for the chapters on didactic and Catholic fiction, as you might expect). (Amazon)
- Anne O'Connor, Translation and Language in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: A European Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Studies who translated, who and what got translated, the reputation of translators, female translators, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Tamson Pietsch, Empire of Scholars: Universities, Networks, and the British Academic World 1850-1939 (Manchester, 2013). How academics pursued jobs in the imperial context, forged professional connections, did their work, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Brent Sirota, The Christian Monitors: The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730 (Yale, 2014). Studies the work of the Church of England in early modern charitable endeavors, the formation of the SPCK, etc. (Amazon)