This Week's Acquisitions

• The Banished Family and the Bohemian Confessor (RTS, c. 1890).  Two very short historical tales about Protestants being persecuted by Catholics.  (eBay)
• Jane Rogers, The Testament of Jessie Lamb (HarperPerennial, 2011).  A young woman tries to make sense of life after terrorists release a virus that targets pregnant women.  (LiftBridge)
• Diane Long Hoeveler, Gothic Riffs: Secularizing the Uncanny in the European Imaginary, 1780-1829 (Ohio, 2010).  Explicating the Gothic supernatural in an increasingly disenchanted world.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Timothy Maxwell Gouldstone, The Rise and Decline of Anglican Idealism in the Nineteenth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  The (malign?) influence of T. H. Green on Victorian Anglican theology.  (A fictional version of Green plays an important role in Mrs. Humphry Ward's Robert Elsmere.)  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Michael C. Legaspi, The Death of Scripture and the Rise of Biblical Studies (OUP, 2010).  What happened to Bible studies in the post-Reformation era when the Bible was no longer entirely understood as "Scripture"? (Amazon)