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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 to Sir Walter Scott and contemporary Scottish women novelists, to offer students and scholars of Scottish and English literature a fresh insight into the socio-cultural context of the British state after 1746.
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 comp...
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Anne McKee Stapleton is a lecturer at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Department of English. Her primary areas of research and teaching include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish literature, Victorian fiction, and women’s narratives of quest and transformation. She earned her PhD at the University of Iowa and is a Member of the British Association of Teachers of Dance, Highland Branch.
Anne McKee Stapleton is a lecturer at the University of Iowa, where she teaches in the Department of English. Her primary areas of research and teaching include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish literature, Victorian fiction, and women’s narratives of quest and transformation. She earne...
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