TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buckland,Theresa
TI  - Society dancing: fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920 
SN  - 9780230277144 (hardback)
AV  - GV1646.E6 B84 2011
U1  - 793.310904212 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - England
KW  - Social dance
KW  - Social history
KW  - Nineteenth century
KW  - Twentieth century
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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