This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Claire Wood, Dickens and the Business of Death (Cambridge, 2015). Not just people dying, but the entire financial apparatus surrounding death (burials, ornaments, paintings, etc.). (Amazon)
- Brett C. McInelly, Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism (Oxford, 2014). The roles of various forms of controversial literature in shaping eighteenth-century Methodist practice. (Amazon)