This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- S. Punot, Christine, the Bible Girl (J. F. Shaw, n.d. [1900]). A French Catholic girl comes to England and converts to Protestantism, among other things. (eBay)
- Forrest Leo, The Gentleman (Penguin, 2016). Broke poet marries rich woman and accidentally loses her to Satan, which is terribly inconvenient but leads to a number of adventures. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Mary Jean Corbett, Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf (Cornell, 2008). Analyzes shifting definitions of incest in the 19th c. and their ramifications for the marriage plot. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Robert Ryan, The Romantic Reformation: Religious Politics in English Literature, 1789-1824 (Cambridge, 1997). Romanticism as a programmatic intervention in contemporary belief. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Penny Fielding, Scotland and the Fictions of Geography: North Britain, 1760-1830 (Cambridge, 2008). Constructing the shape (literally) of national identity. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Geoffrey A. Oddie, Imagined Hinduism: British Protestant Missionary Constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900 (Sage, 2006). Examines how the missionaries encountered, understood, and reported on Hinduism during the imperial era. (Amazon [secondhand])