Society dancing : fashionable bodies in England, 1870-1920 /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011
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Table of 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