{"product_id":"the-pointe-of-the-pen-betsy-winakur-tontiplaphol-9781802073607","title":"The Pointe of the Pen: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and the Balletic Imagination","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802073604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802073607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052373135615,"sku":"9781802073607","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d55d485-4697-44e7-9274-89aa44958eaf.jpg?v=1723556182","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pointe-of-the-pen-betsy-winakur-tontiplaphol-9781802073607","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}