Carter, Alexandra: Dance & Dancers in the Victorian & Edwardian Music Hall Ballet (Ashgate Books) Hardback

Contents

Contents: Preface; Prologue; In fit and seemly luxury: ballet at the Alhambra and the Empire; From the principals to the passées: performers in the music hall ballets; Dancing the feminine: gender and sexuality on stage; A fairyland of fair women: dancing the narratives of the age; Images and imagination: poetry, fiction and the eye of the writer; Prejudicial to public morality: the moral image of the dance and dancer; Cara's tale; Epilogue; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.