Session Details

Friday, 30 December

686. Dance and the Victorians

10:15–11:30 a.m., Park Tower Suite 8209, Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Robin J. Barrow, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

1. “‘Our Little Gem of Terpsichore’: The Nineteenth-Century Dance Manual,” Cheryl Anne Wilson, Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania

2. “The Iconography of Ballet,” Megan Early Alter, Univ. of Iowa

3. “From Dance to Text: Gender, Representation, and the Literary Appropriation of ‘the African Woman’ in Nineteenth-Century British Literature,” Susan Jones, Univ. of Oxford, Saint Hilda’s Coll.

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