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Society dancing : fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920 / Theresa Jill Buckland.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.Description: x, 247p. illISBN:
  • 9780230277144 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 793.310904212 22
LOC classification:
  • GV1646.E6 B84 2011
Other classification:
  • PER003070 | PER003000 | HIS037060 | HIS054000
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.

Includes index.

Machine generated contents note: -- 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.

"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.

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