Dancing out of Line: Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture (Ballrooms, Ballets, and Mobility in Victorian Fiction and Culture)
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. This book analyzes the role of the dance master, who created and disseminated the manners and moves expected of fashionable society.
