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])

Comments

[nbm]

LP, if you get around to the Clayton book any time soon, will you post your thoughts? Not that we don't want to hear from you on Chronic City & Wolf Hall, but one or two other people are also reading those.

[JaneGS]

What a great set of acquisitions. I plan to read Wolf Hall and the new Dracula book this winter--hopefully the latter will be true to Stoker's vision of him as a monster and not try to trick him out as a heartthrob.

The Robson book sounds really interesting--I'll be waiting for a review :)