UID:
almahu_9949387076402882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000387759
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1000387755
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9781003173175
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1003173179
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9781000387780
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100038778X
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in romanticism
Content:
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary explores ways in which England in the Romantic period conceptualized its relation both to its constituent parts within the United Kingdom and to the larger world through discussions of dance, dancing, and dancers, and through theories of dance and performance. As a referent that both engaged and constructed the body--through physical training, anatomization, spectacle and spectatorship, pathology, parody, and sentiment--dance worked to produce an English exceptional body. Discussions of dance in fiction and periodical essays, as well as its visual representation in print culture, were important ways to theorize points of contact as England was investing itself in the world as an economic and imperial power during and after the Revolutionary period. These formulations offer dance as an engine for the reconfiguration of gender, class, and national identity in the print culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.
Note:
Introduction: Dance in the Romantic Imagination -- Theorizing the Dancing Body -- Foreign Dancers in English Space: Theatrical Politics and Political Theatre in Romantic Print Culture -- Contending Aesthetics: Austen, Thackeray, and the Rise of the Ballerina -- Strange Disorders, Exciting Contagions: Dancing and Disease in the Periodicals -- Nationalism, Nostalgia, and English Country Dancing.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781000387780
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780367373559
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0367373556
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003173175
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003173175
