This Week's Acquisitions
- Jonathan Lethem, Chronic City (Doubleday, 2009). Ex-star and unsuccessful critic meander through life in 21st century NYC. (BOMC)
- Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt, Dracula the Un-Dead (Dutton, 2009). And here you all thought that the Count was really, most sincerely dead. An "authorized" sequel (Stoker is indeed a relative). (BOMC)
- Hilary Mantel, Wolf-Hall: A Novel (Holt, 2009). Thomas Cromwell deals with aggravating people like Henry VIII, various queens, etc. (Amazon)
- Jay Clayton, Charles Dickens in Cyberspace: The Afterlife of the Nineteenth Century in Postmodern Culture (Oxford, 2003). Using Victorian literature to diagnose contemporary problems in cultural criticism. (eBay)
- Geoffrey Robson, Dark Satanic Mills? Religion and Irreligion in Birmingham and the Black Country (Paternoster, 2002). Industralism and religion. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David Bebbington, Holiness in Nineteenth-Century England (Paternoster, 2007). Lectures on the emergence of the Holiness movement. (Amazon [secondhand])