{"product_id":"the-pointe-of-the-pen-nineteenth-century-poetry-and-the-balletic-imagination-paperback","title":"The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBetsy Winakur Tontiplaphol\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally a courtly art, ballet experienced dramatic evolution (but never, significantly, the \u003cbr\u003eprospect of extinction) as attitudes toward courtliness itself shifted in the aftermath of the French Revolution. As a result, it afforded a valuable model to poets who, like Wordsworth and his successors, aspired to make the traditionally codified, formal, and, to some degree, aristocratic art of poetry compatible with \"the very language of men\" and, therefore, relevant to a new \u003cbr\u003eclass of readers. Moreover, as a model, ballet was \u003ci\u003evisible\u003c\/i\u003e as well as valuable. Dance historians recount the extraordinary popularity of ballet and its practitioners in the nineteenth century, and \u003ci\u003eThe Pointe of the Pen\u003c\/i\u003e challenges literary historians' assertions - sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit - that writers were immune to the balletomania that shaped both Romantic and Victorian England, as well as Europe more broadly. The book draws on both primary documents (such as dance treatises and performance reviews) and scholarly histories of dance to describe the ways in which ballet's unique culture and aesthetic manifest in the forms, images, and ideologies of significant poems by Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Barrett Browning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetsy Winakur Tontiplaphol is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53341449978163,"sku":"9781802073607","price":105.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/dguRsrPVUc9781802073607.webp?v=1778662370","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-pointe-of-the-pen-nineteenth-century-poetry-and-the-balletic-imagination-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}