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The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature: Narratives of Sexuality and Power Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk 9780198932529

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The Waltzing Body in Victorian Literature: Narratives of Sexuality and Power traces the evolution of the waltz from a taboo dance in the early nineteenth century to a gracefully nostalgic practice that must be preserved by the century's end. While Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk references eighteenth-century authors to frame the waltz's initial reception in England, the study focuses primarily on Victorian authors who shaped how and why this dance was paradoxically viewed as elegant, effeminate, and sterile. Hadyk explores female sexuality and the concept of choice in the ballroom; a shifting and sometimes contradictory understanding of masculinity through male performance; the erasure of and reclamation of queer desire in heterosexual courting spaces; and the rhetoric of new technologies that attempted to contain, shape, and memorialize a temporal art form. A brief epilogue considers how late-Victorian (and heavily sanitized and romanticized) depictions of the waltz reverberate today in popular films and reality TV, which perpetuate Victorian assumptions about class, gender, sexuality, and more. By understanding the history of the waltz, the reader is invited to examine the dizzying discomfort that many Victorians expressed about forging ahead into a modern (and modernizing) world, particularly at the turn of the century. With comparatively little scholarship around understanding dance scenes and dance semiotics in literature, this book articulates a new interpretive path for familiar and unfamiliar nineteenth-century narratives, offering new ways of understanding and engaging with the role and culture of dance.

About the Author
Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk worked as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and a dance teacher at En Avant School of Dance before completing her doctorate at the University of Florida, where she specialized in Victorian literature. She now teaches in the English department at Groton School in Groton, Massachusetts.


Book Information
ISBN 9780198932529
Author Sabrina Gilchrist Hadyk
Format Hardback
Page Count 240
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press

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