Pointe of the Pen - Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination

The Pointe of the Pen argues that the nineteenth century's balletic innovations the most iconic of which was the ballerina en pointe, or dancing on the tips of her toes - assisted nineteenth-century poets in both conceiving and articulating the object of verse in an age increasingly shaped by the novel.

About the author

Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.

Product details

• Authors: Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781802073607
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-360-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies