Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary

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.

List of contents

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
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About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Flieger Samuelian, Samuelian Kristin Flieger
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032002217
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3200221-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Dance, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights