This Week's Acquisitions

(Oh look! All the books from the Strand arrived!)

• Essie Fox, Elijah's Mermaid (Orion, 2012).  In Victorian London, a brother and sister encounter a mysterious orphan.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Neil M. Gunn, Butcher's Broom (Souvenir, 1977).  Reprint of Gunn's historical novel about the Highland Clearances.  (Strand)
• W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician (Vintage, 2000).  Historical-cum-Gothic novel set in early 20th-c. Paris, featuring evil, the supernatural, young love, vengeance, etc.  (Strand)
• Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs (Faber and Faber, 2010).  Naive student finds adventure and romance by ignoring what exists of her common sense.  (Strand)
• George Meredith, Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads, ed. Rebecca N. Mitchell and Criscilla Ann Bedford (Yale, 2013).  New scholarly edition of Meredith's verse novel in its original poetic context.  (Strand)
• T. D. McKinney and Terry Wylis, Kissing Sherlock Holmes (Amber Quill, 2011).   It's Sherlock Holmes! It's gay romance! It was half of a gift to me from Bob, who chose a very ironic counterpart (see below)! (Gift)
• Valerie Weaver-Zercher, Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (Johns Hopkins, 2013).  Critical study of the Amish romance genre, which is a big seller in the evangelical fiction market.  It's also the second part of my gift... (Gift)
• Gillian Gill, We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals (Ballantine, 2009).  A revisionist account of their marriage.  (Strand)
• Judith Flanders, A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin (Norton, 2005).  Group biography of the four MacDonald sisters and their marriages into the Victorian intellectual and artistic elite.  (Strand)
• Richard J. Evans, Cosmopolitan Islanders: British Historians and the European Continent (Cambridge, 2009).  Historiographical study of the British interest in the European continent, down to the present day.  (Strand)
• Mark Hutchinson and John Wolffe, A Short History of Global Evangelicalism (Cambridge, 2012).  What the title says--an overview of evangelicalism as a world-wide phenomenon, from the beginnings to the present.  (Strand)
• David Bebbington, Victorian Religious Revivals: Culture and Piety in Local and Global Contexts (Cambridge, 2012).  Examines the revivalist phenomenon in Britain, the USA, and the Empire more generally, looking at changing strategies for organizing and effecting conversion.  (Strand)
• Stewart J. Brown and Peter B. Nockles, eds., The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830-1930 (Cambridge, 2012).  Intersections of Oxford Movement theology and social thought with what was percolating within Britain, on the Continent, and in the Empire.  (Strand)
• John Henry Lewis Rowlands, Church, State, and Society: The Attitudes of John Keble, Richard Hurrell Froude, and John Henry Newman, 1827-45 (Churchman, 1989).  Survey of key Oxford Movement thinkers & their understanding of how the Church ought to shape society at large in an era of change.  (Amazon [secondhand])