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From the ballroom to hell : grace and folly in nineteenth-century dance / Elizabeth Aldrich.
LIBRA GV1619 .A43 1991
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aldrich, Elizabeth, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dance--History--19th century.
- Dance.
- Social history--19th century.
- Social history.
- Etiquette.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 225 pages : illustrations, music ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- 'From The Ballroom To Hell' collects over one hundred little-known excerpts from dance, etiquette, beauty, and fashion manuals from roughly 1800-1890. It will be of great interest to dancers and dance historians, choreographers, and dramatists interested in accurately reproducing nineteenth-century dance scenes and the surrounding social mechanisms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0810109123
- 0810109131
- OCLC:
- 23386597
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