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A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series.

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“This book harvests the fruits of a decade of critical rethinking about Freud and Lacan and historical research into the history of medicine to rewrite the history of dance in literature, as literature, and against literature. In that way it is without rivals.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University

Table of Contents
Contents 1. 2. 3. 4.

Dance Pathologies

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    A Paperback / softback by Felicia McCarren

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/08/1998
      ISBN13: 9780804735247, 978-0804735247
      ISBN10: 0804735247

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of the nineteenth century response in the intersections of dance, literature and medicine, to the connections between illness, madness, poetry and performance with a view to illuminating French literature and culture in the nineteenth century, dance history and feminist performance theory and modern medicine. In the WRITING SCIENCE series.

      Trade Review
      “This book harvests the fruits of a decade of critical rethinking about Freud and Lacan and historical research into the history of medicine to rewrite the history of dance in literature, as literature, and against literature. In that way it is without rivals.”—Joseph Roach, Yale University

      Table of Contents
      Contents 1. 2. 3. 4.

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