Literature And Dance In Nineteenth Century Britain
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Author | : Cheryl A. Wilson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-03-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521519098 |
The first full-length study of the treatment of social dance in the literature of the nineteenth century.
Author | : Lucy Hartley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-08-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107184088 |
This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.
Author | : David Atkinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2016-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317049209 |
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
Author | : Sadiah Qureshi |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2011-10-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226700968 |
Examines the phenomenon of human exhibitions in nineteenth-century Britain and considers how this legacy informs understandings of race and empire today.
Author | : Jonathan Farina |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107181631 |
This book explores the ordinary turns of phrase by which major nineteenth-century British writers created character.
Author | : Lauren Gillingham |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2023-05-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009296574 |
Revealing how a modern notion of fashion helped to transform the novel and its representation of social change and individual and collective life in nineteenth-century Britain, Lauren Gillingham offers a revisionist history of the novel. With particular attention to the fiction of the 1820s through 1840s, this study focuses on novels that use fashion's idiom of currency and obsolescence to link narrative form to a heightened sense of the present and the visibility of public life. It contends that novelists steeped their fiction in date-stamped matters of dress, manners, and media sensations to articulate a sense of history as unfolding not in epochal change, but in transient issues and interests capturing the public's imagination. Reading fiction by Mary Shelley, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, W. H. Ainsworth, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and others, Fashionable Fictions tells the story of a nineteenth-century genre commitment to contemporaneity that restyles the novel itself.
Author | : Ann R. Hawkins |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2021-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438485565 |
A vital part of daily life in the nineteenth century, games and play were so familiar and so ubiquitous that their presence over time became almost invisible. Technological advances during the century allowed for easier manufacturing and distribution of board games and books about games, and the changing economic conditions created a larger market for them as well as more time in which to play them. These changing conditions not only made games more profitable, but they also increased the influence of games on many facets of culture. Playing Games in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America focuses on the material and visual culture of both American and British games, examining how cultures of play intersect with evolving gender norms, economic structures, scientific discourses, social movements, and nationalist sentiments.
Author | : Rishona Zimring |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781409455769 |
Arguing that social dance haunted the interwar imagination, Zimring reveals the powerful figurative importance of music and dance, both in the aftermath of war, and during Britain's entrance into cosmopolitan modernity and the modernization of gender relations. Analysing paintings, films, memoirs, ballet, documentary texts and writings by Modernist authors, Zimring illuminates the ubiquitous presence of social dance in the British imagination during a time of cultural transition and recuperation.
Author | : Dennis Denisoff |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-12-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108845975 |
Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.
Author | : Maria Marcsek-Fuchs |
Publisher | : Hotei Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2015-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004292586 |
Dance and literature seem to have much in common. Both are part of a culture, represent a culture, and subvert a culture. Yet at the same time, they appear to be medial antagonists: one is kinetic and multimedial, the other (often) verbal and seemingly mono-medial. What happens, however, when both meet; when movement is integrated into the literary world or even replaces verbal communication? Dance is artistic and popular, traditional and innovative, bodily and ephemeral. It holds cultural and kinetic information in a nutshell and thus brings movement and cultural history into a text. Shakespeare’s plays, Restoration comedy, 19th century caricature, popular and elitist theatre, all make use of dance as special means of signification. Thus, this study explores dance in British literature from Shakespeare to Yeats, and illustrates the many ways in which these two forms of artistic expression can enter into various kinds of intermedial encounters and cultural alliances.