This Week's Acquisitions

• Little Andy's Legacy; Or, for the Master's Sake.  An Irish Story (RTS, [1882]).  Short anti-Catholic novel for children, touching on relations between the Protestant gentry and the Catholic peasants.
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Poison: A Novel (Norton, 2007).  An already messed-up family becomes even more messed up when a dead man's private papers are at stake.
• Anita Amirrezvani, The Blood of Flowers: A Novel (Little, Brown, and Company, 2007).  Historical novel set in seventeenth-century Persia.
• R. Po-chia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany (Yale, 1990).  The blood libel in sixteenth-century Germany.   
• Robert Kingdon, Myths about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572-1576 (Harvard, 1988).  The immediate afterlife of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres in Protestant accounts published across Europe.
• James C. Livingston, Religious Thought in the Victorian Age: Challenges And Reconceptions (T. & T. Clark, 2007).  A new general overview of Victorian religious trends (e.g., Broad Church movement, responses to science).
• Oliver P. Rafferty, Catholicism in Ulster, 1603-1983: An Interpretative History (University of South Carolina, 1995).   Historical roots of contemporary Catholic-Protestant conflicts.
• Daniel Hack, Material Interests of the Victorian Novel (U P of Virginia, 2005).  Victorian fascination with what the blurb calls the "physicality" of text.
• Nadia Valman, The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture (Cambridge, 2007). Multiple fictions of the Jewess, including those by Jews.