{"product_id":"dancing-out-of-line-ballrooms-ballets-and-mobility-in-victorian-fiction-and-culture-hardback-9780821418888","title":"Dancing Out of Line; Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture (Hardback) 9780821418888","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDancing Out of Line\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBallrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMolly Engelhardt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780821418888, Ohio University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 August 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.474 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"The scope of Engelhardt's research on Victorian dance and its cultural resonances is truly impressive, and the volume includes a number of wonderful anecdotes, examples, and illustrations from the dance history archives.…Engelhardt's style is refreshing and fun—she weaves in casual references to popular culture, such as the high-school prom, hip hop, and \u003ci\u003eDirty Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e—encouraging readers to see links between our own culture of dance and that of the Victorians with regard to topics such as socialization and courtship.\" (Victorian Studies) \"Engelhardt's study is thorough and smart. Her commitment to underscoring the limitations of the Foucauldian and Freudian approaches informing other scholarly work on dance is exciting.\" (Victoriographies) \"\u003ci\u003eDancing Out of Line\u003c\/i\u003e makes the compelling case that understanding the social ritual of Victorian dance is a necessary prerequisite for grasping the Victorian construct of femininity. It is an outstanding work of feminist cultural studies and essential reading for any scholar of nineteenth-century social history.\" (Journal of British Studies) \"Like its topic, Dancing out of Line knows how to move: the pacing is brisk, the voice is up-tempo, and the historical narrative is insistent but light on its feet. In tracing the complex patterns of nineteenth-century dance and its novelistic representations, Engelhardt doesn't miss a step.\" (author of Theater Figures: The Production of the Nineteenth-Century British Novel) \"Evidencing considerable scholarship, this well-written book deals with a subject little examined in literary study, provides interesting reading, and suits the current literary climate.\" (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDancing out of Line transports readers back to the 1840s, when the craze for social and stage dancing forced Victorians into a complex relationship with the moving body in its most voluble, volatile form.\u003cbr\u003e By partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such as\u003ci\u003e Jane Eyre, Bleak House,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDaniel Deronda,\u003c\/i\u003e Molly Engelhardt makes explicit many of the ironies underlying Victorian practices that up to this time have gone unnoticed in critical circles. She analyzes the role of the illustrious dance master, who created and disseminated the manners and moves expected of fashionable society, despite his position as a social outsider of nebulous origins. She describes how the daughters of the social elite were expected to \"come out\" to society in the ballroom, the most potent space in the cultural imagination for licentious behavior and temptation. These incongruities generated new, progressive ideas about the body, subjectivity, sexuality, and health.\u003cbr\u003e Engelhardt challenges our assumptions about Victorian sensibilities and attitudes toward the sexual\/social roles of men and women by bringing together historical voices from various fields to demonstrate the versatility of the dance, not only as a social practice but also as a forum for Victorians to engage in debate about the body and its pleasures and pathologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574503829784,"sku":"9780821418888","price":45.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dancing-out-of-line-ballrooms-ballets-and-mobility-in-victorian-fiction-and-culture-hardback-9780821418888","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}