This Week's Acquisitions
- J. M. Neale, Tales Illustrative of the Apostles' Creed (John Masters, 1862). Example of one subgenre of religious fiction: the short-story sequence designed to break down creed, prayers, etc. into manageable chunks. More about Neale here. (eBay)
- Ray Russell, Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories (Penguin, 2013). Collects Russell's short fiction, featuring such figures as Elizabeth Bathory. (Amazon)
- Elizabeth A. Bridgham, Spaces of the Sacred and Profane: Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town (Routledge, 2012). Argues that the cathedral town was key to understanding English national identity at mid-century. (Amazon)
- David Chidester, Empire of Religion: Imperialism and Comparative Religion (Chicago, 2014). Argues that race was central to the emergence of comparative religion in its British context. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Suzanne K. Kaufman, Consuming Visions: Mass Culture and the Lourdes Shrine (Cornell, 2004). Studies the phenomenon of tourism, souvenir production, &c. that emerged around Lourdes, and the responses thereto. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz, Encountering Mary: From La Salette to Medjugorje (Princeton, 1991). Analyzes the major Marian apparitions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Amazon [secondhand])