Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on seven celebrity performers working between the mid 1880s and 1910. Maud Allan, Jane Avril, Loïe Fuller, Sylvia Grey, Yvette Guilbert, Letty Lind and Cissie Loftus achieved international fame, whilst simultaneously creating new and innovative performances on the popular stage. -- .
Table of ContentsIntroduction
The terrain:
1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation, performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siècle London and Paris
2. ‘All the noblest arts … expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body’: embodiment and spectacular performances of gender
Spaces:
3. Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loïe Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre, London
4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris
Image:
5. ‘They are wise who advertise, in every generation’: image and the female celebrity
6. The art of imitation: staging the cult of celebrity
Intersections:
7. Moving away from the muse: Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage
8. Avant-Garde Salomania: ‘the most famous dancing girl in history?’
Afterword
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