The Fountainpen and the Metronome: Bloomsbury Dancing, or not
When Lydia Lopokova, the Russian ballerina, married John Maynard Keynes, the world-famous economist, the match met with fierce disapproval on the part of his Bloomsbury friends. It may be argued that the fact that the Bloomsbury set overlooked Lydia Lopokova’s love for words and poetical frame of mi...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/13624 |
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| Summary: | When Lydia Lopokova, the Russian ballerina, married John Maynard Keynes, the world-famous economist, the match met with fierce disapproval on the part of his Bloomsbury friends. It may be argued that the fact that the Bloomsbury set overlooked Lydia Lopokova’s love for words and poetical frame of mind so as to assign the silent part of the muse to her epitomizes the way they failed to fully acknowledge how the grammar of dance might have enriched the more canonical art forms they were familiar with. |
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| ISSN: | 0220-5610 2271-6149 |