Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION; INTRODUCTION; Method; The marriage plot; Dance "texts" as evidence; Performance vs. plot; Conclusion; 1 THE ROMANTIC BALLET; Coppélia and the "decline" of French nineteenth-century ballet; 2 THE RUSSIAN IMPERIAL BALLET; The gender of fairytales; Choreography: the body of meaning; Women in The Nutcracker and Swan Lake; The question of female agency; 3 EARLY MODERN DANCE; The Fairy Electricity; La Liberté; Salammbô; Conclusion; 4 EARLY MODERN BALLET; Conclusion
Summary
A spectacular and timely contribution to dance history, recasting canonical dance since the early nineteenth century in terms of a feminist perspective
