This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- J.G. Lockhart, Valerius: A Roman Story (Blackwood, 1821). Three-volume first edition of this historical novel by Sir Walter Scott's son-in-law (best known for his biography of Scott). (eBay)
- Emile Zola, The Dream, trans. Michael Glencross (Peter Owen, 2005). Part of the Rougon-Macquart cycle. A young woman in love with a wealthy man finds herself inspired by saints' lives. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Maurice Level, Thirty Hours with a Corpse and Other Tales of the Grand Guignol, ed. S.T. Joshi (Dover, 2016). Collection of concise stories, most recycled as plays for the Grand Guignol, in the "cruel tales" tradition. (eBay)
- Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, Echoes of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon (Pegasus Crime, 2016). Holmes-inspired situations, ranging from Holmes' "ghost" to children transforming themselves into Holmes. (Amazon)
- Otto Penzler, ed., The Big Book of Jack the Ripper (Vintage, 2016). What it says on the tin. Nonfiction, historical fiction, fiction inspired by. (Amazon)
- Elaine Freedgood, Victorian Writing about Risk: Imagining a Safe England in a Dangerous World (Cambridge, 2000). Risk as conceptualized in political economy, missionary writing, travel writing, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David Blackbourn, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Knopf, 1994). Studies the phenomenon of Marian apparitions via reports of events at Marpingen in 1876. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Michael Wilks, ed., Prophecy and Eschatology (Blackwell, 1994). Collection of essays on apocalyptics, Biblical commentary, Biblical chronology, etc. (Amazon)
- Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality,and the Politics of Translation (Columbia, 2009). Analyzes the meaning of the very concept of "religion" through a study of Sikhism under empire. (Amazon)