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Beyond the Moulin Rouge : the life and legacy of la Goulue / Will Visconti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Visconti, Will, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Peculiar Bodies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women dancers--France--Biography.
- Women dancers.
- Dancers--France--Biography.
- Dancers.
- France--Social conditions--19th century.
- France.
- Goulue, 1866-1929.
- Goulue.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville, Virginia : University of Virginia Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Beyond the Moulin Rouge: The Life and Legacy of La Goulue is the first biography of La Goulue in English debunking the myths about the performer La Goulue, Louise Weber. Using overlooked archival sources, including Weber's own diaries, this book considers why Weber made the choices that she did and how she challenged contemporary thinking about work, class, gender, and sexuality during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation
- Chronology
- Introduction
- 1: Growing Pains
- 2: Au Joyeux Moulin Rouge
- 3: Tours, Trials, and Tribulations
- 4: Husbands and Other Animals
- 5: The Final Act
- Illustration Gallery
- 6: Afterlife
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series-Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813946825
- 0813946824
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