This Week's Last Month's Acquisitions
- [Fanny Taylor], The Stoneleighs of Stoneleigh Hall and Other Stories, 3rd ed. (Burns and Oates, 1913). Reprinted short story collection by Taylor, a nun, novelist, and magazine editor. (eBay)
- William; Or, the Converted Romanist, ed. Thomas O. Summers (Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1885). Reprint of the 1855 ed. Anti-Catholic controversial novel, translated from the French. (eBay)
- John M. Bamford, Father Fervent (T. Woolmer, 1887). Methodist novel about an itinerant clergyman. (eBay)
- Lauren Groff, Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories (Voice, 2009). Short story collection. (QPB)
- China Mieville, The City & The City (Del Rey, 2009). SF-thriller set in two cities that exist in an overlapping space. (BOMC)
- Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Flint Anchor (Viking, 1954). Warner's final novel, detailing domestic intrigue in a nineteenth-century family. (eBay)
- John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright (McClelland & Stewart, 1992). Historical novel about eighteenth-century explorer George Cartwright. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Laurie Sheck, A Monster's Notes (Knopf, 2009). Frankenstein's Creature weighs in. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Andrew H. Miller, The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Cornell, 2008). Studies the discourses of moral "improvement" in the nineteenth century. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Muireann O'Cinneide, Aristocratic Women and the Literary Nation, 1832-1867 (Palgrave, 2008). The role of "aristocratic women" (e.g., Lady Caroline Norton) in shaping nineteenth-century culture. (Review copy)
- Julian Moynahan, Anglo-Irish: The Literary Imagination in a Hyphenated Culture (Princeton, 1995). The Protestant Anglo-Irish community of authors as Irish. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Emmet Larkin, The Consolidation of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1860-1870 (U of NC Press, 1987). Part of Larkin's massive history of the Church in 19th-c. Ireland. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Stewart Brown, Providence and Empire: Religion, Politics, and Society in Britain and Ireland, 1815-1914 (Longman, 2008). New historical survey. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Gerald O'Collins and Mario Ferrugia, Catholicism: The Story of Catholic Christianity (Oxford, 2004). Introductory historical overview. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David B. Elliot, Charles Fairfax Murray: The Unknown Pre-Raphaelite (Oak Knoll, 2000). Biographical study of a largely-forgotten painter. To see some of Murray's work, visit Artcyclopedia. (eBay)
- Michaela Giebelhausen, Painting the Bible: Representation and Belief in Mid-Victorian Britain (Ashgate, 2006). What it says on the tin--a study of Victorian religious painting, focusing on representations of scenes from the Bible. (Ashgate)