TY  - BOOK
AU  - McKee Stapleton,Anne
TI  - Pointed Encounters: Dance in Post-Culloden Scottish Literature
T2  - Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature
SN  - 9789401211116
AV  - PR3732.S5 .M384 2014 
U1  - 820.994109033 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Editions Rodopi
KW  - Dance in literature
KW  - Scottish literature
KW  - 18th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Folk dancing, Scottish
KW  - History
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Danse dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature écossaise
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - Danse folklorique écossaise
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Mémoire collective
KW  - Écosse
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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