Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 (Hardcover)
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.
THERESA BUCKLAND Professor of Performing Arts at De Montfort University, UK.
"The strength of this book lies in the variety of facets of social dance in the late Victorian/early twentieth century which it addresses. This range of content is, nevertheless, cohesive, and culminates in a rich picture of time, place, people, their dances and their dancing."-- Alexandra Carter, Emeritus Professor in Dance Studies, University of Middlesex, UK