Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rae Beth GordonTheme:Chronological Period/1851-1899, Chronological Period/1900-1919, Cultural Region/FrenchPublish date:12/28/2008Pages:330
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780754652434ISBN-10:0754652432UPC:9780754652434Book Category:History, Performing Arts, ArtBook Subcategory:Europe, MovementsBook Topic:France, ModernismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SCEAVTPZGV
Examining the influence of Darwin's evolutionary theory on French thought, Rae Beth Gordon weaves the history of medical science, ethnology, and popular culture into an exploration of the cultural implications of gesture in dance performances in Parisian café-concerts and music-halls. She illuminates the blurring of racial lines in the representations of the primitive and of nervous pathology that informed dances like the Cake-Walk. These dances with Darwin, she contends, constituted an aesthetic of disorder long before Dada and Surrealism.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780754652434ISBN-10:0754652432UPC:9780754652434Book Category:History, Performing Arts, ArtBook Subcategory:Europe, MovementsBook Topic:France, ModernismSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.64Product ID:SCEAVTPZGV
Rae Beth Gordon is Professor emerita of French Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Author of numerous essays on 19th-century medicine, literature, and aesthetics, she has written Ornament, Fantasy, and Desire in Nineteenth-Century French Literature (1992) and Why the French love Jerry Lewis: From Cabaret to Early French Cinema (2001).
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