The Pointe of the Pen : Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination /

The Pointe of the Pen argues that the nineteenth century's balletic innovations the most iconic of which was the ballerina en pointe, or dancing on the tips of her toes - assisted nineteenth-century poets in both conceiving and articulating the object of verse in an age increasingly shaped by t...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Tontiplaphol, Betsy Winakur
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2021.
Cyfres:Romantic Reconfigurations Studies in Literature and Culture 1780 1850 Ser.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1pncr55
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.