Pointed Encounters : Dance in Post-Culloden Scottish Literature.

By:

McKee Stapleton, Anne

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; Volume 23.Publication details: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (219 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789401211116
9401211116
9042038691
9789042038691
1322339414
9781322339412

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pointed Encounters : Dance in Post-Culloden Scottish Literature.DDC classification:

820.994109033

LOC classification:

PR3732.S5 .M384 2014

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One The Strathspey as National Expression in Eighteenth-Century Song and Poetry; Chapter Two Masterful Narratives: Policing the Public Body and Positioning the Practice of National Dance; Chapter Three Choreographing Character, 1814-1815: The New Scottish Novels of Walter Scott and Christian Isobel Johnstone; Chapter Four Unauthorised Women in Scottish Novels, 1814-1824: Social Dance, Fictional Outings, and National Concerns ; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written between 1750 and 1830. Presenting original readings of canonical texts and fresh readings of neglected but significant literary works, this book traces the complicated role of social dancing in Scottish culture and identifies the hitherto unexplored motif of dance as an outwardly conforming, yet covertly subversive, expression of Scottish identity during the period. The volume draws upon diverse yet mutually revealing texts, from traditional dance and music t.

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Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written between 1750 and 1830. Presenting original readings of canonical texts and fresh readings of neglected but significant literary works, this book traces the complicated role of social dancing in Scottish culture and identifies the hitherto unexplored motif of dance as an outwardly conforming, yet covertly subversive, expression of Scottish identity during the period. The volume draws upon diverse yet mutually revealing texts, from traditional dance and music t.