Zoom

Theatres of the Body: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia

Name: Theatres of the Body: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia
Brand: Temple University Press
SKU: 9781439923047
Price: 33.99 USD
Availability: InStock

$33.99 $36.95

Discount: $2.96 (9%)

Hurry Up! Only 140 Left in Stock!

Out of stock >

Guarantee safe & Secure checkout

Availability: In Stock

Contributors:

Lynn Matluck Brooks

Publisher:

Temple University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Performing Arts, Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Dance, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United States

Book Topic:

History & Criticism, American, State & Local

Shipping & Return +

The product is eligible for a complimentary return within 30 days from the date of purchase. Furthermore, individual items are shipped within 24 hours of receiving the order.

Rating and Reviews +

Specifications +

Release Date:

7/18/2025

ISBN 13:

9781439923047

Weight:

0.91 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inches

Pages:

300

Mint Condition +

product description

Description

Theatres of the Body is Lynn Matluck Brooks' critical examination of danced stage productions in antebellum Philadelphia. Starting in the 1820s, Brooks explores visual art and social and theatrical dancing across different classes, focusing on the work of E. W. Clay. Continuing through the 1830s, she looks at pantomime ballets and blackface minstrelsy through a political lens, asking questions regarding citizenship, slavery, and freedom. At the time, the city boasted the largest number of native-born ballet dancers in the young nation. Philadelphia also became a creative home to blackface star T. D. Rice, who helped popularize that performance genre.

Reviewing print culture in the 1840s, Brooks shows how newspapers, magazines, and popular fiction provided documentation of dancing in Philadelphia as well as the responses of dance commentators, practitioners, and moralists. Theatres of the Body also considers the interplay of science with dance in the 1850s, which impacted both dance practices and reception.

Providing an expansive historiography of these significant contributions to dance in the United States, Brooks deepens our understanding of antebellum culture and history.

About the Author
Lynn Matluck Brooks is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Franklin & Marshall College. She is the author of John Durang: Man of the American Stage, The Art of Dancing in Seventeenth-Century Spain: Juan de Esquivel Navarro and His World, and The Dances of the Processions of Seville in Spain's Golden Age and the editor of Women's Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800. She was also editor of Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicle, and thINKingDANCE.org.

Theatres of the Body: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia

Customer Reviews

Description

Recently Viewed Products

Recently viewed products

Secure Payment

Online Offers

Quick Refunds

Curated Items