Pointed encounters : : dance in post-Culloden Scottish literature / / Anne McKee Stapleton.

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 complic...

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Superior document:Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; Volume 23
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, 2014.
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Scottish cultural review of language and literature ; Volume 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (219 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • The Strathspey as National Expression in Eighteenth-Century Song and Poetry
  • Masterful Narratives: Policing the Public Body and Positioning the Practice of National Dance
  • Choreographing Character, 1814-1815: The New Scottish Novels of Walter Scott and Christian Isobel Johnstone
  • Unauthorised Women in Scottish Novels, 1814-1824: Social Dance, Fictional Outings, and National Concerns
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • 18th- and 19th-century scottish literature.