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Society dancing : fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920
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Title
Society dancing : fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920 / Theresa Jill Buckland.
ISBN
9780230277144 (hardback)
0230277144 (hardback)
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
x, 247 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Based on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and creative individual expression"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Illustrations
Contents
PART I: SOCIETY DANCES
Fashionable Bodies and Society Dancing
Fashioning Dance Histories
The Seasonal Round
Public Spaces
Late Victorian Repertoire
Anarchy in the Ball Room
PART II: FASHIONING GENTILITY
A Noble Profession
Temples of Terpsichore
The Fashioning of Ladies
Modelling the Lady
Where are our Men?
Dancing Dogs and Manly Men
PART III: MODERN MOVES
Moving into the Twentieth Century
Modernizing Terpsichore
Civilization Under Threat
Knuts and Aliens
Civilizing from the Centre
Looking Back, Moving On
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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