Dancing out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture

by Molly Engelhardt

Dancing 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.

By partnering cultural discourses with representations of the dance and the dancer in novels such as Jane Eyre, Bleak House, and Daniel Deronda, Molly Engelhardt makes explicit many of the ironies underlying Victorian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821418882
• ISBN13: 9780821418888
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.0"