Theatres of the Body: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia by Lynn Matluck Brooks

Posted by on Apr 17, 2026 in | Comments Off on Theatres of the Body: Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia by Lynn Matluck Brooks Theatres of the Body Dance and Discourse in Antebellum Philadelphia by Lynn Matluck Brooks Temple University Press, 306 pages, hardcover $119.50, paperback $36.95 With Theatres of the Body, Lynn Matluck Brooks weaves together two seemingly disparate histories — blackface minstrelsy and the increasingly female art of ballet — to analyze embodied performance in 19th-century Philadelphia. Brooks, a...
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