This Week's Acquisitions
- Kate Mitchell and Nicola Parsons, eds., Reading Historical Fiction: The Revenant and Remembered Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Collection of essays on historical fiction from its origins to the present, including chapters on Gothic, neo-Victorianism, general theory, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- William Palmer, Two of Eight Letters to N. Wiseman, D.D., on the Errors of Romanism (King & Baird, 1851). US reprint of part of Palmer's controversial tracts on the usual Catholic targets (here, with heavy emphasis on idolatry). Palmer, of Worcester College, Oxford, was a lapsed Tractarian; somewhat confusingly, his contemporary is William Palmer of Magdalene College, Oxford, also a Tractarian (and, late in life, a convert to Catholicism). (eBay)