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Dancing Through Time
Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400 - 1918 (Selections)
Compiled by Allison Thompson

What do ...

  • Jane Austen
  • Louisa May Alcott
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Willa Cather
  • William Shakespeare
  • Lord Byron
  • Leo Tolstoy
  • Mark Twain
  • and Anonymous

And the ...

  • Quadrille
  • Jelly-Roll
  • Tango
  • Polka
  • Galliarde
  • English Country Dance
  • Minuet
  • Waltz
  • Cotillion
have in common?

Each of these popular authors described one or more of the dances listed as they moved their heroes and heroines through their plots and romances.

Since 1400, poets, playwrights and novelists have incorporated dance into their works.  Dancing Through Time presents 88 selections with commentary from poems, plays, novels, dance manuals and other period works. Arranged in seven historical periods ranging from Chaucer to Fitzgerald, it includes commentary on the dances of the period as well as the authors and their works. Enjoyable and informative for lovers of both dance and literature!

(Published by McFarland & Co., Inc., 1998. 256 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-7864-0480-9) 

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