Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-237) and index.
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 -- Appendix: Key personnel in society dancing in England, 1870-1920.
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.
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