Kristin Flieger Samuelian

The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how Romantic-era England conceptualized its relation to its constituent parts and the larger world through discussions of dancing and theories of dance and performance. As a referent that engaged and constructed the body dance worked to produce an English exceptional body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000387780
• Artikelnr.: 61762469

Autorenporträt

Kristin Flieger Samuelian is an Associate Professor of English at George Mason University. She is the author of Royal Romances: Sex, Scandal, and Monarchy in Print, 1780-1821 (2010), as well as journal and anthology essays on Dickens, Austen, and Romantic periodicals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Dance in the Romantic Imagination
Chapter 1: Theorizing the Dancing Body
Chapter 2: Foreign Dancers in English Space: Theatrical Politics and
Political Theatre in Romantic Print Culture
Chapter 3: Contending Aesthetics: Austen, Thackeray, and the Rise of the
Ballerina
Chapter 4: Strange Disorders, Exciting Contagions: Dancing and Disease in
the Periodicals
Chapter 5: Nationalism, Nostalgia, and English Country Dancing
Coda