Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections - Softcover

 
9780786473915: Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786473916 ISBN 13: 9780786473915
Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2012

Inhaltsangabe

From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character development. The ballroom, an important element of society in real life, was a backdrop to grand passions or pivotal encounters--ideal ground for commentary on the social milieu.

This work presents 88 literary selections (from etiquette manuals, diaries, poems, plays, essays and novels) that together form a survey of social dance in England and America over a span of 500 years. They illustrate specific dances, social dance behavior or the intimate reactions of participants. One finds, for example, the ultimate downfalls of Flaubert's Emma Bovary, Hardy's Eustacia Vye, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina are all foretold in pivotal dance scenes. Fully indexed.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Allison Thompson is a writer, historian, and folk dance leader and musician. (She was the student dance leader for the Elizabethan May Day festival held at Earlham College in 1977.) She lives in Pittsburgh.

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"Fun and interesting...Thompson displays an impressive depth and breadth of knowledge about both literature and dance. It's must reading for serious students of dance history, and a valuable companion to lovers of literature"

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From Chaucer to Fitzgerald, writers have used dancing as a vital, if subtle, element in plot and character development. The ballroom, an important element of society in real life, was a backdrop to grand passions or pivotal encounters--ideal ground for commentary on the social milieu. This work presents 88 literary selections (from etiquette manuals, diaries, poems, plays, essays and novels) that together form a survey of social dance in England and America over a span of 500 years. They illustrate specific dances, social dance behavior or the intimate reactions of participants. One finds, for example, the ultimate downfalls of Flaubert's Emma Bovary, Hardy's Eustacia Vye, and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina are all foretold in pivotal dance scenes. Fully indexed.

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Verlag
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786473916
ISBN 13 
9780786473915
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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