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The Pointe of the Pen - Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination (Hardcover)
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The Pointe of the Pen - Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850, 15
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Originally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution
(but never, significantly, the prospect of extinction) as attitudes
toward courtliness itself shifted in the aftermath of the French
Revolution. As a result, it afforded a valuable model to poets who,
like Wordsworth and his successors, aspired to make the
traditionally codified, formal, and, to some degree, aristocratic
art of poetry compatible with "the very language of men" and,
therefore, relevant to a new class of readers. Moreover, as a
model, ballet was visible as well as valuable. Dance historians
recount the extraordinary popularity of ballet and its
practitioners in the nineteenth century, and The Pointe of the Pen
challenges literary historians' assertions - sometimes implicit,
sometimes explicit - that writers were immune to the balletomania
that shaped both Romantic and Victorian England, as well as Europe
more broadly. The book draws on both primary documents (such as
dance treatises and performance reviews) and scholarly histories of
dance to describe the ways in which ballet's unique culture and
aesthetic manifest in the forms, images, and ideologies of
significant poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Barrett
Browning.
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