Society dancing : fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920 /
Theresa Jill Buckland.
- Basingstoke, Hampshire ; Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- x, 247p. ill.
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.