This Week's Last Month's Acquisitions

(Still jet-lagged; I hope to be back to substantive posts tomorrow.)

• Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (Knopf, 2007).  In Nazi-era Germany, a young girl steals books.  With a special appearance by the man with the scythe.  (Gift)
• Joyce Carol Oates, The Falls: A Novel (Harper Perennial, 2008).  In 1950, a man just married commits suicide by jumping into the Niagara Falls; the novel traces the next thirty years of his wife's emotional fallout and its effects on her second husband, their children, and their families.  (Borders)
• Paul West, A Fifth of November (New Directions, 2004).  Historical novel set during the Gunpowder Plot.  (eBay)
• Greg Norminton, Ghost Portrait (Sceptre, 2005).  Historical novel about a painter in seventeenth-century England whose artistic career suffers from the era's political crises.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Iris Murdoch, The Bell (Penguin, 2001).  Emotional and spiritual conflicts within a religious community.  (eBay)
• Rosalind Belben, Hound Music (Vintage, 2002).  A family of hunting enthusiasts at the turn of the twentieth century.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Emily Lawless, Hurrish: A Study (Appletree, 1992).  Reprint of Lawless' controversial novel, first published in 1886.  (eBay)
• Margaret Dalziel, Popular Fiction 100 Years Ago: An Unexplored Tract of Literary History (Cohen & West, 1957).  Classic older survey of Victorian pop fiction.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins, 2006).  Intellectual and cultural history of how the difference between public and private became absolute during the early modern period.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Hilary Fraser, Gender and the Victorian Periodical (Cambridge, 2003).  Articulating gender differences in Victorian periodicals/Victorian periodicals producing gender differences.   (Amazon [secondhand])
• Heidi Hansson, Emily Lawless (1845-1913): Writing the Interspace (Cork, 2007).  Study of the late-Victorian Irish novelist.  (eBay)
• Leopold von Ranke, The History of the Popes, of Their Church and State, and Especially of Their Conflicts with Protestantism in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, trans. E. Foster, 3 vols. (George Bell, 1876).  Famed historical study.  There are notes on Ranke and some useful links here.  (eBay)
• The Papacy of Modern Times: Report of the National Convention of Protestants Held in Glasgow, December 1886 (Scottish Protestant Alliance, [1887]).  Collection of anti-Catholic essays, lectures, addresses, etc.  (eBay)
• The Gospel Messenger II (1854).  Church of Scotland magazine; incomplete volume with what appears to be the wrong title page.  (eBay)
• The Church Monitor, A Magazine Advocating Catholic Doctrine and Practice I (1866).  Anglo-Catholic magazine.  (eBay)
• Paul William Harris, Nothing But Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions (Oxford, 2000).  Study of the pioneering missionary and his influence on later practice.  (eBay)
• Benjamin J. Kaplan, Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe (Harvard, 2009).  How the Reformation affected toleration for religious differences (negatively).  (Amazon)
• Donal A. Kerr, Peel, Priests, and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1841-1846 (Oxford, 1984).  Relations between the RCC and the British government up to the Famine.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Brian K. Pennington, Was Hinduism Invented? Britons, Indians, and the Colonial Construction of Religion (Oxford, 2005).  Analyzes changes in the ideas and practices of Hinduism under English influence during the nineteenth century.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Kirstie Blair, ed., John Keble in Context (Anthem, 2004).  Essays on Keble's theology, poetics, politics, etc.  (eBay)
• Anne C. Rose, Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America (Harvard, 2001).  Examines intermarriages among Protestants, Catholics, Jews, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])