Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings
| Book | Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings |
| Editor | Jenny Uglow |
| Introduction by | Joan Smith |
| Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue) | Joan Smith |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
| Cover Art by | Roxanna Bikadoroff |
| Imprint | Penguin Books |
| Research Assistant | Charlotte Crofts |
| Author photo/portrait | Miriam Berkley |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Roxanna Bikadoroff |
| Copyright Holder | The Estate of Angela Carter |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| This Edition Published | 1998 |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| Pages / Font | 641 pages / Bembo |
| Printer's Key | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 |
| ISBN 10 | 0-14-027695-5 |
| Barcode (EAN) | 9780140276954 |
| EAN 5 | 90000 |
| Price | U.S. $15.95 |
| Price | CAN. $22.99 |
| Chapters | Editor's note Introduction by Joan Smith SELF The Mother Lode My Father's House Sugar Daddy Notes from a Maternity Ward Fools Are My Theme Notes from the Front Line Anger in a Black Landscape BODY LANGUAGES Fleshly Matters Lovely Linda Fat Is Ugly A Well-Hung Hang-Up Health on the Brain Georges Bataille: Story of the Eye Edward Shorter: A History of Women's Bodies Eric Rhode: On Birth and Madness Food Fetishes The New Vegetarians Saucerer's Apprentice Jessica Kuper (ed.): The Anthropologist's Cookbook Barbara Tims (ed.): Food in Vogue Elizabeth David: English Bread and Yeast Cookery An Omelette and a Glass of Wine and Other Dishes Patience Gray: Honey from a Weed Dressing Up and Down Notes for a Theory of Sixties Style The Wound in the Face Trouser Protest Year of the Punk The Bridled Sweeties Ted Polhemus and Lynn Procter: Fashion and Anti-Fashion David Kunzle: Fashion and Fetishisms The Recession Style Lou Taylor: Mourning Dress Elizabeth Wilson: Adorned in Dreams Roland Barthes: The Fashion System Arthur Marwick: Beauty in History HOME AND AWAY What the Hell -- It's Home! Bradford: Industry as Artwork Fin de Siècle The Oss Has His Day Bath, Heritage City What the Hell -- It's Home! The Donnie Ferrets The Paris of the North D'You Mean South? Poets in a Landscape So There'll Always Be an England Masochism for the Masses Michael Moorcock: Mother London Iain Sinclair: Downriver Travelling My Maugham Award The Back of Beyond Triple Flavour Wet Dream City A Petrified Harvest Bread on Still Waters Munch and Antibiotics Constructing an Australia Japan Tokyo Pastoral People as Pictures Mishima's Toy Sword Once More into the Mangle Poor Butterfly Death in Japan A Fertility Festival Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji Ian Buruma: A Japanese Mirror Junichiro Tanizaki: Naomi Amerika Tom Wolfe That Arizona Home Snow-Belt America The Rise of the Preppies Anne Campbell: The Girls in the Gang Edmund White: The Beautiful Room Is Empty LOOKING Animalia At the Zoo Animals in the Nursery In the Bear Garden Little Lamb, Get Lost All Creatures Great and Small Song and Show Now Is the Time for Singing Bob Dylan on Tour A Busker (Retired) The Good Old Songs Giants' Playtime Wagner and the Mistral Fun Fairs Carlos Moore: Fela Fela Phyllis Rose: Jazz Cleopatra Screen and Dream Femmes Fatales Japanese Erotica Much, Much Stranger than Fiction Bertolucci: La Luna Hal Ashby: Being There The Draughtsman's Contract The Belle as Businessperson Jean-Luc Godard Robert Coover: A Night at the Movies Hollywood Barry Paris Louise Brooks In Pantoland The Granada, Tooting The Box Theatre of the Absurd Acting It Up on the Small Screen The Box Does Furnish a Room Monkey Business The Wonderful World of Cops Making Art Berthold Hinz: Art in the Third Reich Treasures of Ancient Nigeria Artists of the Tudor Court Pontus Hulten: The Arcimboldo Effect Three Women Artists Frida Kahlo STORIES AND TELLERS Tell Me A Story Jorge Luis Borges: An Introduction to English Literature The Hidden Child The Art of Horrorzines The Better to Eat You With An I for Truth Latin Rhythms Yashar Kemal: The Lords of Akchasaz William Burroughs: Ah Pook Is Here William Burroughs: The Western Lands The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm The Sweet Sell of Romance Robert Darnton: The Great Cat Massacre Irish Folk Tales, Arab Folktales Bruce Chatwin: The Songlines Through a Text Backwards: The Resurrection of the House of Usher Milorad Pavic: Dictionary of the Khazars Milorad Pavic: Landscape Painted with Tea Writers and Readers Lorenzo the Closet Queen The Life of Katherine Mansfield The Alchemy of the Word F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby Grace Paley: The Little Disturbances of Man and Enormous Changes at the Last Minute Colette Carol Ascher: Simone de Beauvoir D. H. Lawrence, Scholarship Boy Envoi: Bloomsday Alison's Giggle Trials of a Booker Judge J. G. Ballard Empire of the Sun The End: Reading South Africa Christina Stead Vladimir Nabokov: The Enchanter Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda Salman Rushdie: The Satanic Verses Love in a Cold Climate Colin Greenland: Michael Moorcock: Death Is No Obstacle Appendix: Introduction to Expletives Deleted Chronology of Journalism and Occasional Writings (1964-91) Index |
| Notes | Printed in the United States of America |
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