Pointed Encounters: dance in Post-Culloden Scottish literature

Anne McKee Stapleton

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Pointed Encounters: dance in Post-Culloden Scottish literature

Anne McKee Stapleton

Scottish cultural review of language and literature, v. 23, Editions Rodopi

2014

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Abstract

Annotation Pointed Encounters establishes the literary significance of representations of dance in poetry, song, dance manuals, and fiction written between 1750 and 1830. Presenting original readings of canonical texts and fresh readings of neglected but significant literary works, this book traces the complicated role of social dancing in Scottish culture and identifies the hitherto unexplored motif of dance as an outwardly conforming, yet covertly subversive, expression of Scottish identity during the period. The volume draws upon diverse yet mutually revealing texts, from traditional dance and music to Sir Walter Scott and contemporary Scottish women novelists, to offer students and scholars of Scottish and English literature a fresh insight into the socio-cultural context of the British state after 1746.

Folk dancing, Scottish -- Scotland -- In literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

Collective memor -- Scotland -- 18th century

Collective memor -- Scotland -- 19th century

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Title: Subtitle: Pointed Encounters: dance in Post-Culloden Scottish literature
Creators: Anne McKee Stapleton - University of Iowa, English
Resource Type: Book
Publisher: Editions Rodopi; Amsterdam
Series: Scottish cultural review of language and literature; v. 23
ISBN: 9789042038691; 9042038691
Number of pages: 219 pages
Language: English
Date published: 2014
Academic Unit: English
Record Identifier: 9983993789502771

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