Dancing out of line : ballrooms, ballets, and mobility in Victorian fiction and culture / / Molly Engelhardt

• Autore: Engelhardt Molly
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.8093559
• Soggetto topico: English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism; Dance in literature; Manners and customs in literature; Dance - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Dance - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The natural accidents of dancing -- Jane Austen and the semiotics of dance: the manner of reading -- Reckless debutantes and the spectacle of "coming out" -- Sylphs in the parlor-- catch them if you can -- Seeds of discontent : dance manias, medical inquiry, and Victorian (ill) health -- The mourning after : dancing the Victorians past.
• Sommario/riassunto: Dancing out of Line transports readers back to the 1840's, when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form. By partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such as Jane Eyre, Bleak House, and Daniel Deronda, Molly Engelhardt makes explicit many of the ironies underlying Victorian practices that up to this time have gone unnoticed in critical circles. She analyzes the role of the illustrious dance master, who created an
• Titolo autorizzato: Dancing out of line
• ISBN: 0-8214-4312-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811265003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II