This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
[Thanks to ongoing home renovations, I was momentarily unable to remember where I had put the acquisitions...]
- Kim Newman, Anno Dracula 1899 and Other Stories (Titan, 2017). New collection of Newman's patented mash-ups, featuring everybody from Jack the Ripper to Edgar Allen Poe. (Barnes and Noble)
- ---, Angels of Music (Titan, 2016). It's the Phantom of the Opera! As the head of a private detective operation! Featuring detectives like Irene Adler! (Barnes and Noble)
- Lyndon J. Dominique, Imoinda's Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 (Ohio, 2012). Analyzes the significance of Imoinda, a character originally featured in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, for later iterations of race, politics, and the marriage plot. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Damon Ieremia Salesa, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, 2011). Studies nineteenth-century arguments in favor of interracial marriage and its political, cultural, and religious implications. (Amazon)
- Pietro Corsi, Science and Religion: Baden Powell and the Anglican Debate, 1800-1860 (Cambridge, 1988). Uses Baden Powell's career to analyze the intersections of Anglican theology and new scientific theories, including evolution. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Jacinta Prunty, Margaret Aylward: Lady of Charity, SIster of Faith 1810-1889 (Four Courts, 1999). Biography of the Irish charitable reformer Margaret Aylward, founder of the SIsters of the Holy Faith. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John Riches, ed., The New Cambridge History of the Bible: From 1750 to the Present (Cambridge, 2015). Publishing, dissemination, theory, appropriation, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])