Rishona Zimring

Social Dance and the Modernist Imagination in Interwar Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Arguing that social dance haunted the interwar imagination, Zimring reveals the powerful figurative importance of music and dance, both in the aftermath of war, and during Britain's entrance into cosmopolitan modernity and the modernization of gender relations. Analysing paintings, films, memoirs, ballet, documentary texts and writings by Modernist authors, Zimring illuminates the ubiquitous presence of social dance in the British imagination during a time of cultural transition and recuperation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9781138271890
• ISBN-10: 1138271896
• Artikelnr.: 57046486

Autorenporträt

Rishona Zimring is Associate Professor of English at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: a nation in the mood to dance
Prologue: social dance, musical entertainments, and the question of sociability
Couples and flirts: dance after war in Lawrence and Mansfield
How Bloomsbury danced
Dancing in place: folk, mass, and visions of community
'Feet rising and falling': dance, meter, and modernity in Eliot's East Coker
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.