- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 228 pages)
- Summary
- "Originally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution (but never, significantly, the prospect of extinction) as attitudes toward courtliness itself shifted in the aftermath of the French Revolution. As a result, it afforded a valuable model to poets who, like Wordsworth and his successors, aspired to make the traditionally codified, formal, and, to some degree, aristocratic art of poetry compatible with "the very language of men" and, therefore, relevant to a new class of readers. Moreover, as a model, ballet was visible as well as valuable. Dance historians recount the extraordinary popularity of ballet and its practitioners in the nineteenth century, and 'The Pointe of the Pen' challenges literary historians' assertions - sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit - that writers were immune to the balletomania that shaped both Romantic and Victorian England, as well as Europe more broadly. The book draws on both primary documents (such as dance treatises and performance reviews) and scholarly histories of dance to describe the ways in which ballet's unique culture and aesthetic manifest in the forms, images, and ideologies of significant poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Barrett Browning."--taken from back cover.
- Series Statement
- Romantic reconfigurations : Studies in literature and culture 1780-1850
- Uniform Title
- Pointe of the pen (Online)
- Romantic reconfigurations.
- Alternative Title
- Pointe of the pen (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Every savage can dance : English poets and ballet -- Chapter 1. Sprightly dance and other measured motion : Wordsworth and balletic expressivity -- Chapter 2. Classic pas - sans flaw : Byron, Shelley, and the balletic body -- Chapter 3. Tiptoe aspirations : Barrett Browning and balletic mobility -- Works cited -- Index.
- LCCN
- 2021386910
- OCLC
- ssj0002666290
- Author
Tontiplaphol, Betsy Winakur.
- Title
The pointe of the pen [electronic resource] : nineteenth-century poetry and the balletic imagination / Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol.
- Imprint
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.
- Series
Romantic reconfigurations : Studies in literature and culture 1780-1850
Romantic reconfigurations.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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ebook version : 9781800858602