This (Last) Week's (Slightly Delayed) Acquisitions

• Emma Donoghue, The Sealed Letter (Harcourt, 2008).  Feminist Emily Faithfull finds herself mixed up in a friend's affair.  (eBay)
• Jeff Rackham, The Rag and Bone Shop (Penguin, 2002).  Dickens' relationship with actress Ellen Ternan. (eBay)
• Heather Henderson, The Victorian Self: Autobiography and Biblical Narrative (Cornell, 1989).  How Biblical narratives shaped nineteenth-century self-representation.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• James Raven, ed., Free Print and Noncommercial Publishing Since 1700 (Ashgate, 2000).  Essays on the Religious Tract Society and similar organizations.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, and Visions (Princeton, 1999).  Analyzes competing narratives of what religious experience is and how it should be discussed.  (Basilea Books)
• Stephen D. O'Leary, Arguing the Apocalypse: A Theory of Millennial Rhetoric (Oxford, 1998).  Constructs a theory of apocalyptic rhetoric by drawing on everything from the Bible to contemporary fundamentalism.  (Amazon [secondhand])