This Week's Acquisitions
- Colum McCann, Dancer: A Novel (Picador, 2004). Fictionalized biography of Rudolf Nureyev, as told through multiple voices.
- China Mieville, Iron Council (Del Rey, 2004). Third in Mieville's series of novels about Bas-Lag and the city of New Crobuzon.
- Christopher Bram, The Notorious Doctor August: His Real Life and Crimes (Perennial, 2001). Civil War-era historical novel involving spiritualism, music, and magic, among numerous other things.
- Samuel Wainwright, Ritualism: Romanism: and the Reformation: A Question of Fact (Partridge, 1879). Attack on the Anglo-Catholic movement.
- Nicholas Tyacke, Aspects of English Protestantism c. 1530-1700 (Manchester, 2001). Essays mainly on Puritanism and Arminianism.
- Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale, 2004). Argues that a new concept of selfhood emerged in the late eighteenth century.