Dancing Through Time: Western Social Dance in Literature, 1400-1918: Selections

Contents

• Table of Contents
• Preface     
• From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: 1400 to 1650
• Introduction     
• Sir Mirthe’s Carole (GEOFFREY CHAUCER)     
• Instruction in the Dance (THOINET ARBEAU)     
• The Masque of Beauty (BEN JOHNSON)     
• Of Masques and Triumphs (FRANCIS BACON)     
• At the Wedding of Lady Quiteria (MIGUEL CERVANTES)     
• Fetchen Home the May (EDMUND SPENSER)     
• Foot It, Girls! (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)     
• Rallied by Scorn (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)     
• Wooing, Wedding and Repenting (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE)     
• The Bridal Feast (THOMAS HEYWOOD)     
• Good Fellows Must Go Learn to Dance (ANONYMOUS)     
• The Dance of Love (SIR JOHN DAVIES)     
• The Restoration of Pleasure: 1651 to 1759
• Introduction     
• Preface to the English Dancing Master (JOHN PLAYFORD)     
• Of the Ceremonial Observed at the King’s Grand Ball (P. RAMEAU)     
• This Day (SAMUEL PEPYS)     
• Nothing So Necessary to Mankind (MOLIERE)     
• The Gentleman Dancing Master (WILLIAM WYCHERLEY)     
• The Art of Dancing (SOAME JENYNS)     
• It May Be Practiced Innocently (EUSTACE BUDGELL)     
• Joan Sanderson, Or, the Cushion Dance (JOHN PLAYFORD)     
• Gratiana Dancing (RICHARD LOVELACE)     
• Don’t Be Ridiculous (LORD CHESTERFIELD)     
• Attention to the Dance (LORD CHESTERFIELD)     
• Genteel Carriage (LORD CHESTERFIELD)     
• Dancing the Rudiment of Polite Education (HENRY FIELDING)     
• Pamela’s Lament (SAMUEL RICHARDSON)     
• The May-Pole (ROBERT HERRICK)     
• The Country Life (ROBERT HERRICK)     
• Joan to the Maypole Away (ANONYMOUS)     
• The Rural Dance About the May-Pole (ANONYMOUS)     
• The May Pole Speaks (THOMAS HALL)     
• The Age of Reason: 1760 to 1799
• Introduction     
• Rules for an Amicable Society (BALTIMORE ASSEMBLY)     
• A Treatise on the Art of Dancing (GIOVANNI GALLINI)     
• Evelina Makes a Mistake (FRANCES BURNEY)     
• Her Grandmother Takes Evelina to a Ball (FRANCES BURNEY)     
• Fashions and Follies (FRANCES BURNEY)     
• These Damn’d French Steps (RICHARD SHERIDAN)     
• The Jealous Lover (RICHARD SHERIDAN)     
• The Pleasures of Bath (TOBIAS SMOLLETT)     
• The Vicar Holds an Informal Frisk (OLIVER GOLDSMITH)     
• The Grace (LAURENCE STERNE)     
• The Pleasures of Dancing (J. W. VON GOETHE)     
• The Regency: 1800 to 1836
• Introduction     
• Our Boasted National Dance (THOMAS WILSON)     
• Country Dance and Quadrille (THOMAS MOORE)     
• Mr. Bingley’s Success at the Ball (JANE AUSTEN)     
• The Usages of Society (CHARLES W. DAY)     
• Tom and Jerry Visit Almack’s Ballroom (PIERCE EGAN)     
• Waltzing (THOMAS WILSON)     
• The Waltz; An Apostrophic Hymn (GEORGE, LORD BYRON)     
• Mr. Tilney Likens Marriage to Country Dancing (JANE AUSTEN)     
• Bewitching Converse During the Dance (JANE AUSTEN)     
• Mr. Fezziwig’s Christmas Dance (CHARLES DICKENS)     
• Fanny Is the Guest of Honor (JANE AUSTEN)     
• And Then He Danced (GEORGE, LORD BYRON)     
• In the Reign of the Young Queen: 1837 to 1869
• Introduction     
• A Sample Dance Card (BEADLE’S DIME GUIDE)     
• Modern Manners (L. DE G. BROOKES)     
• The Art of Dancing (THOMAS HILLGROVE)     
• Madame Bovary Learns to Waltz (GUSTAVE FLAUBERT)     
• And Then She Danced (W. M. PRAED)     
• New Impressions (LOUISA MAY ALCOTT)     
• Mr. Jorrocks in Paris (ROBERT SURTEES)     
• Description of a Ball at Paris (“L.”)     
• On Domestic Amusements and Social Duties (CATHERINE BEECHER)     
• An Hour in a Ball-Room (M. A. DENISON)     
• The Belle of the Ball (CAROLINE LEE HENTZ)     
• Concerning Round Dances (ALFRED L. CARROLL)     
• A Social Cancer! (W. C. WILKINSON)     
• Eustacia Goes A-Gypsying (THOMAS HARDY)     
• The Tranter’s Party (THOMAS HARDY)     
• They Dance More Wildly (THOMAS HARDY)     
• The Sanitary Ball (MARK TWAIN)     
• The Lobster Quadrille (LEWIS CARROLL)     
• The Gilded Age: 1870 to 1899
• Introduction     
• Fashionable Dancing (MRS. JOHN SHERWOOD)     
• Round Dances (REV. CHARLES B. GOSS)     
• The Boston Dip (FRED. W. LORING)     
• Young Tom Decides the Redowa Is Worth Learning (LOUISA MAY ALCOTT)     
• Advice to a Leader of a “German” (TWO AMATEUR LEADERS)     
• The Band Played On (PALMER AND WARD)     
• The Fateful Meeting (COUNT LEO TOLSTOY)     
• A Southern Michigan Kadrille (DELLA LUTES)     
• The End of an Era: 1900 to 1918
• Introduction     
• Dancing As an Art (V. AND I. CASTLE)     
• Basil Goes to a Tea Dance (F. SCOTT FITZGERALD)     
• The Man with Two Left Feet (P. G. WODEHOUSE)     
• Distinction Vanished with the Cotillion (EMILY POST)     
• The Sub-Deb’s Holaday Cotillion (MARY R. RINEHART)     
• Waltz Me Around Again, Willie (W. COBB)     
• An Old-Fashioned Country Dance (RALPH D. PAINE)     
• The Dance in the Heartlands (WILLA CATHER)     
• Index