This Week's Acquisitions
- Dodie Bellamy, The Letters of Mina Harker (Wisconsin, 1998). Super-revisionist take on Dracula, set in 80s San Francisco.
- Peter Carey, My Life as a Fake (Knopf, 2003). Literary hoaxing.
- Marcus Wood, The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology, 1764-1865 (Oxford, 2004). Massive collection of both abolitionist and pro-slavery texts; for samples of 18th c. abolitionist poetry, visit Brycchan Carey's site.
- Michael Freeman, The Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World (Yale, 2004). Geology, dinosaurs, etc. More background on Victorian geology here; see also the Unmuseum's page on Victorian dinosaurs.
- Frederick D. Maurice, Thoughts on the Rule of Conscientious Subscription, on the Purpose of the Thirty-Nine Articles, and on Our Present Perils from the Romish System: In a Second Letter to a Non-Resident Member of Convocation (John Henry Parker, 1845). Part of the Tractarian controversy, occasioned here by William George Ward.