The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary - Kristin Flieger Samuelian

The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary

Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-37355-9 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
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.
The Moving Body and the English Romantic Imaginary explores ways in which England in the Romantic period conceptualized its relation both to its constituent parts within the United Kingdom and to the larger world through discussions of dance, dancing, and dancers, and through theories of dance and performance.

As a referent that both engaged and constructed the body—through physical training, anatomization, spectacle and spectatorship, pathology, parody, and sentiment—dance worked to produce an English exceptional body. Discussions of dance in fiction and periodical essays, as well as its visual representation in print culture, were important ways to theorize points of contact as England was investing itself in the world as an economic and imperial power during and after the Revolutionary period. These formulations offer dance as an engine for the reconfiguration of gender, class, and national identity in the print culture of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.

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.

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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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Romanticism
Zusatzinfo 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Tanzen / Tanzsport
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-367-37355-6 / 0367373556
ISBN-13 978-0-367-37355-9 / 9780367373559
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