This Week's Acquisitions

• Allegra Goodman, Intuition (Dial, 2006).  Goings-on in a cancer research laboratory.
• Carol Shields, Collected Stories (Harper Perennial, 2005).  The late Shields' complete stories, one of them first published here.
• Robert Mighall, A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares (OUP, 2003).  Historicist interpretation.
• Kathryn Sutherland, Jane Austen's Textual Lives: From Aeschylus to Bollywood (OUP, 2005).  Austen edited, packaged, and revised.
• What is Romanism? (SPCK, 1846-50).  A full set of twenty-six tracts; probably a privately-assembled collection, as some of the early tracts are from later publishing runs.
• William Paley, Natural Theology (OUP, 2006). New edition. 
• Lesley Orr Macdonald, A Unique and Glorious Mission: Women and Presbyterianism in Scotland 1830-1930 (John Donald, 2000).  Women's role in shaping nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Presbyterianism (missionary work, women's rights, etc.).
• S. A. Skinner, Tractarians and the 'Condition of England': The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement (OUP, 2005).  The Tractarians on the social effects of industrialism.
• Felicity Heal, Reformation in Britain and Ireland (OUP, 2005).  Part of the Oxford History of the Christian Church. 
• Norman Etherington, ed., Missions and Empire (OUP, 2005).  Part of the Oxford History of the British Empire.
• D. Bruce Hindmarsh, The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spiritual Autobiography in Early Modern England (OUP, 2005).  Cross-denominational study of eighteenth-century conversion narratives.
• Nigel Yates, The Religious Condition of Ireland 1770-1850 (OUP, 2006).  Interactions of different groups and the manipulations thereof.
• Michael R. Watts, The Dissenters: Volume I: From the Reformation to the French Revolution (OUP, 1986).  Part I of a projected three-volume study.

Comments

[T Wood]

Professor B:

Now that Sutherland's Austen volume is at hand, may we look forward to your writing a little about it sometime? I think Sutherland's is the most interesting book on JA to have been published in some time. Meanwhile, TW