This Week's (Very Belated) Acquisitions
- Helen Oyeyemi, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Riverhead, 2016). Interconnected short stories in which some things can be opened, some can't, and some shouldn't be. (Free copy)
- Jane Stafford, Colonial Literature and the Native Author: Indigeneity and Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Analyzes how Indigenous authors such as Toru Dutt, E. Pauline Johnson, and Mary Prince engage with, appropriate, and rework English canonical forms for their own purposes. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Nigel M. de S. Cameron, Biblical Higher Criticism and the Defense of Infallibilism in 19th Century Britain (Edwin Mellen, 1987). Examines how British theologians attempted to defend traditional Protestant arguments about Biblical inspiration against the new criticism from Germany. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Richard J. Mouw and Mark A. Noll, eds., Wonderful Words of Life: Hymns in American Protestant History and Theology (Eerdmans, 2004). Articles on such topics as the influence of Isaac Watts, evangelical hymnody, missionaries and hymn singing, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])