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The Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biographyby Jennifer S. Uglow , Frances HintonISBN 0826404170 (0-8264-0417-0)
Hardcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Henry Fieldingby Jennifer S. Uglow , Hardy Barbara, Isobel ArmstrongISBN 0746307519 (0-7463-0751-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Hogarth: A Life and a Worldby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0374528519 (0-374-52851-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hogarth: A Life and a World'Book summary:Combining in-depth history with perceptive explication of the references encoded in William Hogarth's images, Jenny Uglow enables modern readers to fully understand the society that shaped the art of William Hogarth (1697-1764). Hugely popular engravings such as A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-La-Mode commented on the tumultuous changes sweeping through 18th-century English society; Hogarth was appreciated as a moralist as much as a painter. Uglow colorfully recreates a vanished world, as well as the prickly nature of a man who revolutionized the role and the status of British artists. [via]
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International Dictionary of Women's Biographyby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0826403581 (0-8264-0358-1)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the Worldby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0374528888 (0-374-52888-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World'Book summary:In the late 1700s, five gifted inventors and amateur scholars in Birmingham, England, came together for what one of them, Erasmus Darwin, called "a little philosophical laughing." They also helped kick-start the industrial revolution, as Jenny Uglow relates in the lively The Lunar Men: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. Their "Lunar Society" included Joseph Priestley, the chemist who isolated oxygen; James Watt, the Scottish inventor of the steam engine; and Josiah Wedgwood, whose manufacture of pottery created the industrial model for the next century. Joined by other "toymakers" and scholarly tinkerers, they concocted schemes for building great canals and harnessing the power of electricity, coined words such as "hydrogen" and "iridescent," shared theories and bank accounts, fended off embezzlers and industrial spies, and forged a fine "democracy of knowledge." And they had a fine time doing so, proving that scholars need not be dullards or eccentrics asocial.
Uglow's spirited look at this group of remarkable "lunaticks" captures a critical, short-lived moment of early modern history. Readers who share their conviction that knowledge brings power will find this book a rewarding adventure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biographyby Jennifer S. Uglow , Frances HintonISBN 0333453034 (0-333-45303-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Nature's Engraver: A Life of Thomas Bewickby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0374112363 (0-374-11236-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Northeastern Dictionary of Women's Biographyby Maggy Hendry, Jennifer S. Uglow , Frances HintonISBN 155553421X (1-55553-421-X)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of New England
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The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary Of Women's Biographyby Jennifer S. Uglow , Frances HintonISBN 1403934487 (1-4039-3448-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Prime Ministerby Anthony Trollope, Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0195208994 (0-19-520899-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Prime Ministerby John McCormick, Anthony Trollope, Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0192815903 (0-19-281590-3)
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Shaking a Leg : Collected Journalism and Writingsby John McCormick, Anthony Trollope, Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0140276955 (0-14-027695-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shaking a Leg : Collected Journalism and Writings'Book summary:Angela Carter died in 1992, but her novels, short story collections, and essays live on, attracting new generations of readers to her often dark, always quirky worldview. Perhaps best known for her fiction (Wise Children, Nights at the Circus, Burning Your Boats, Saints and Strangers, among other titles), Carter was also a gifted and prolific essayist. Two earlier collections, Nothing Sacred and Expletives Deleted, contained much of her journalism and nonfiction; in this latest collection, editor Jenny Uglow has followed Carter's lead, categorizing her work in offbeat, provocative ways. Divided into five main sections ("Self"; "Body Languages"; "Home and Away"; "Looking"; "Stories and Tellers") and many subsections, Uglow has presented essays that range from the early 1960s right up until her death.
Carter certainly wears her convictions on her sleeve; in the 1984 essay "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine and Other Dishes" she decries the "widespread and unashamed cult of conspicuous gluttony" that has sprouted up among yuppie "foodies" in England--people for whom "food is a cornerstone of this hysterical new snobbery." After describing an article in a gourmet magazine that subtly threatens dire consequences for the ignorant host who cannot tell a factory-made brie from a farm-made one, she observes dryly: "This mincing and finicking obsession with food opens whole new areas of potential social shame. No wonder the British find it irresistible." She brings the same laserlike analysis to her 1975 discussion of women's cosmetics, "The Wound in the Face": "[Manufacturers] do not understand their own imagery, any more than the consumer who demonstrates it does. I'm still working on the nature of the imagery of cosmetics. I think it scares me."
Whether she's discussing feminism, her own life history, travel to far-flung corners of the world, or the work of other writers such as Grace Paley or F. Scott Fitzgerald, Angela Carter does so with both precision, intelligence, great wit, and occasional flashes of lyricism. Consider this meditation on the London zoo: "When darkness falls and the crowds are gone and the beasts inherit Regent's Park, I should think the mandrills sometimes say to one another: 'Well, taking all things into consideration, how much better off we are here than in the wild! Nice food, regular meals, no predators, no snakes, free medical care, roofs over our heads... and, after all this time, we couldn't really cope with the wild again, could we?' So they console themselves, perhaps. And, perhaps, weep." And so readers may console themselves with this fine collection of essays. Something to remember Angela Carter by. --Alix Wilber [via]
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Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writingsby Angela Carter, Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0701163364 (0-7011-6336-4)
Hardcover, Chatto & Windus
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