This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- The Tract Magazine and Christian Miscellany (1873). A volume of this RTS publication, featuring serialized fiction, poetry, words to the wise, &c. (eBay)
- Thomas P. Anderson and Ryan Netzley, eds., Acts of Reading: Interpretation, Reading Practices, and the Idea of the Book in John Foxe's Actes and Monuments (Delaware, 2010). Essay collection covering such topics as digitization, illustration, Foxe's additions to the text over time, visual renderings of the text, etc. (Amazon)
- Christopher Flint, The Appearance of Print in Eighteenth-Century Fiction (Cambridge, 2011). Analyzes the relationship between materiality and interpretation by addressing such topics as manipulation of space, paper, typefaces, and the like. (Amazon)
- Claire Connolly, A Cultural History of the Irish Novel, 1790-1829 (Cambridge, 2011). A literary history examining the spread of fiction as a popular form and its engagements with contemporary political and theological questions. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Emily J. Manktelow, Missionary Families: Race, Gender and Generation on the Spiritual Frontier (Manchester, 2013). Interplay of domestic life (marriage, death, child-raising...) and missionary work in the Empire. (Amazon [secondhand])
- E. M. Rose, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origin of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe (Oxford, 2015). Studies the emergence and afterlife of the blood libel in the wake of the mysterious death of William of Norwich in the twelfth century. (Amazon)
- Robert A. Orsi, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them (Princeton, 2006). Theoretical and practical reflections on the scholarly construction of "lived religion," sometimes drawing on Orsi's own experiences. (Amazon [secondhand])