This Week's Acquistions

(OUP owed me books for services rendered--I didn't give them my entire month's paycheck!)

• Andrew Strahan, The Nabob: A Tale of Ninety-Eight, ed. John Wilson Foster (Four Courts, 2006).  Reprint of eight historical-cum-gothic tales, arranged in two parts, set in and about the Irish rebellion of 1798; originally published in 1911.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall (FSG, 2010).  Unhappy art gallery dealer encounters temptation in the form of his wife's ne'er-do-well younger brother.  (QPBC)
• Carol Birch, The Naming of Eliza Quinn (Virago, 2006).  Woman discovers child's skeleton, seeks to discover its identity.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Kate Bernstein, ed., My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me (Penguin, 2010).  Anthology of revisionist fairy tales.  (QPBC)
• Marah Gubar, Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature (OUP, 2010).  Explores the afterlife of the innocent child in Victorian literature and culture.  (OUP)
• Duncan Wu, William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man (OUP, 2010).  Biography of the versatile (and rather self-destructive) Romantic essayist.  (OUP)
• James H. Murphy, Irish Novelists and the Victorian Age (OUP, 2011).  Surveys just about everybody who was anybody (and a lot of people who weren't anybody) in Victorian Irish fiction; arranged according to genre.  (OUP)
• Angus Hawkins, The Forgotten Prime Minister: The Fourteenth Earl of Derby, vol. II (OUP, 2011).  AKA the Prime Minister who ought to be in charge during the film Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown, but gets erased in favor of Disraeli.  (OUP)
• Geoffrey Cantor, Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 (OUP, 2011).  Analyzes religious responses (pro, con, mixed) to the Exhibition.  (OUP)
• Gordon Campbell, Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011 (OUP, 2010).  One of the many (many, many...) books being released to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the KJV.  (OUP)
• Timothy Larsen, Crisis of Doubt: Honest Faith in Nineteenth-Century England (OUP, 2010).  Study of skeptics who reconverted to Christianity.  (OUP)
• Elizabeth E. Prevost, The Communion of Women: Mission and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole (OUP, 2010).  Interactions of Protestant women missionaries with African populations during the Victorian and Edwardian eras.  (OUP)
• David Price, Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books (OUP, 2010).   How the sixteenth-century Hebraist Johannes Reuchlin tried to stop German Christians from eradicating every Jewish book in the country.  (OUP)
• V. Alan McClelland, ed., From Without the Flaminian Gate: 150 Years of Roman Catholicism in England and Wales (Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1999).  Essays on Roman Catholic institutions, people, controversies, etc. after the restoration of the hierarchy.  (Amazon [secondhand])