Theatres of the Body: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia

＂This book presents an expansive study of Philadelphia’s significant contributions to early U.S. dance in the nineteenth century, revealing dance as a force grappling with candescent issues in the nation’s political, social, and intellectual unfolding＂--

Lynn Matluck Brooks is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Franklin & Marshall College. She is the author of John Durang: Man of the American Stage, The Art of Dancing in Seventeenth-Century Spain: Juan de Esquivel Navarro and His World, and The Dances of the Processions of Seville in Spain’s Golden Age and the editor of Women’s Work: Making Dance in Europe before 1800. She was also editor of Dance Research Journal, Dance Chronicle, and thINKingDANCE.org.