Dancing out of line [electronic resource] : ballrooms, ballets, and mobility in Victorian fiction and culture / Molly Engelhardt.
Publication details: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2009.Description: xiii, 226 p. : illISBN:- 9780821418888 (hc : alk. paper)
- 0821418882 (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780821443125 (e-book)
- English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Dance in literature
- Manners and customs in literature
- Dance -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Dance -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
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- PR878.D35 E54 2009eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The natural accidents of dancing -- Jane Austen and the semiotics of dance: the manner of reading -- Reckless debutantes and the spectacle of "coming out" -- Sylphs in the parlor-- catch them if you can -- Seeds of discontent : dance manias, medical inquiry, and Victorian (ill) health -- The mourning after : dancing the Victorians past.
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