Rethinking the sylph : new perspectives on the Romantic ballet /

Rethinking the sylph : new perspectives on the Romantic ballet / edited by Lynn Garafola. - xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Studies in dance history. . - Studies in dance history (Unnumbered). .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.

National Dance in the Romantic Ballet -- Feminism or Fetishism: La Revolte des femmes and Women's Liberation in France in the 1830s -- Marriage and the Inhuman: La Sylphide's Narratives of Domesticity and Community -- Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet We Love to Hate -- Women of Faint Heart and Steel Toes Blasis, the Italian Ballo, and the Male Sylph -- Ballet Dancers at Warsaw's Wielki Theater -- The Arrival of the Great Wonder of Ballet, or Ballet in Rome from -- To 1855 -- Salvatore Taglioni, King of Naples -- Jules Janin: Romantic Critic -- National Dance in the Romantic Ballet -- Feminism or Fetishism: La Revolte des femmes and Women's Liberation in France in the 1830s -- Marriage and the Inhuman: La Sylphide's Narratives of Domesticity and Community -- Redeeming Giselle: Making a Case for the Ballet -- We Love to Hate Women of Faint Heart and Steel Toes Blasis, the Italian Ballo, and the Male Sylph Ballet Dancers at Warsaw's Wielki Theater -- The Arrival of the Great Wonder of Ballet, or Ballet in Rome from 1845 to 1855 -- Salvatore Taglioni, King of Naples -- Jules Janin: Romantic Critic.

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Ballet--History--Europe--19th century.

GV1643. / R48 1997

792.809409034

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