This Week's Month's Acquisitions

(Rather fewer than usual this time around.)

• Daniel Parsons, Stumpingford: A Tale of the Protestant Alliance; Jonah, and La Salette (Thomas Richardson, 1854).  Satirical tale about anti-Catholic activity in a small town.  Previously featured here because it apparently no longer existed.  (eBay)
• C. F. Keary, 'Twixt Dog and Wolf, ed. James Machin (Valancourt, 2017).  New edition of Keary's fin-de-siecle horror stories.  (Amazon)
• Tim Killick, British Short Fiction in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Rise of the Tale (Ashgate, 2008).  Study of how the genre developed and was received, including periodical publication and tract fiction. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Elizabeth M.Sanders, Genres of Doubt: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (McFarland, 2017).  Analyzes SF and fantasy as genres that opened up and engaged with certain questions about alternatives to orthodox belief, including the role of magic, the act of creation, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Efraim Sicher, The Jew's Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative (Lexington, 2017).  Examines how the narrative of the "good" Jewish daughter who becomes a Christian and the "bad" Jewish father who seeks to persecute her became rooted in the theological and literary imagination.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• John and Jean Comaroff, Of Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity on a South African Frontier (Chicago, 1997).  Second volume of the Comaroffs' study of how missionaries engaged with the Tswana, and vice-versa, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Travis Glasson, Mastering Christianity: Missionary Anglicanism and Slavery in the Atlantic World (Oxford, 2012).  Discusses such topics as the role of racial theories, abolition, and the emergence of African missionaries.  (Amazon) 
• K. D. M. Snell, Spirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750-2000 (Bloomsbury, 2016).  Argues that "community" has always been defined by its imminent disappearance, looking at how the trope has played out in art, literature, religion, politics, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])