| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 305 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Maud Allan and the Salome dance in 1908 -- Chapter 1: Erotic dance and the culture of imperial motherhood -- Chapter 2: "Salomé, c'est moi": male artists and the image of the dancer -- Chapter 3: Enter Herodias: the phallic mother and the reproductive fetish -- Chapter 4: On not seeing Salome in Sunset Boulevard -- Chapter 5: The fetish and the reproduction of whiteness from the Salome corpus to Salome, Where She Danced -- Chapter 6: "Pathmakers for Salome": the danse du ventre, the hootchie kootch, and "Little Egypt" -- Chapter 7: Oscar Wilde, Loie Fuller, and Maud Allan -- Chapter 8: Salomania and the memetic moment -- Epilogue: Salomania's legacies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Index |
| Summary |
"This is a study of the performance and circulation of the figure of Salome in imperial Europe and settler colonial North America during the late years of the long period of expansion and territorial occupation at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The book opens with a discussion of Maud Allan's "The Vision of Salome" dance on the London stage in 1908, and the resulting "Salomania" craze that dominated dance for years and pervaded innumerable works in all media that followed. This is followed by a history of erotic dance as it emerged in the nineteenth century, then turns to the representation of Salome in art and literature, in works by writers Gustave Flaubert and Oscar Wilde, composer Richard Strauss, and film director Billy Wilder, as well as the dance interpretations by Allan and Loie Fuller. The book arrives at the phenomenon of "Salomania" as a turning point in the history of erotic dance, reconsidering this event as one that is grounded in the cultural logic of reproductive fetishism shaped by the male artists of the later nineteenth century and that is best understood as a series of interrelated performances in which reproductivity itself is central."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 12, 2023) |
| Subject |
Salome (Biblical figure) -- Art
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Salome (Biblical figure) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Salome (Biblical figure) fast |
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Sex in dance -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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Dance -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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Women dancers -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism.
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Dance
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Literature
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Sex in dance
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Women dancers
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1771125888 |
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9781771125895 |
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1771125896 |
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9781771125888 |
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