Lucia Ruprecht is acting University Lecturer in German and Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Prize: Special Citation winner for the 2007 de la Torre Bueno prize for dance books published in 2006. Awarded by the American Society for Dance History Scholars 'Rooted in solid literary scholarship and innovative dance analysis, Ruprecht introduces English-speaking readers to important European discourses on dance and aesthetics, revealing social and political issues in the Romantic era, as well as suggesting new ways to link literature, modern subjectivity, and the dancing body.' Jennifer Fisher, University of California, Irvine 'Lucia Ruprecht has carefully studied ...'canonical' textual sources and has brought together fascinating material with sparkling and elucidating readings. This book will help all those who wish to study the transformation of early Romantic ideals of the moving body into a sensibility of the dancing body as post-modern performance.' Dance Research 'Dances of the Self is lucid and largely free of terminological jargon. One major success must be the dual achievement of finding not only dancing selves in the texts discussed, but texts which themselves 'dance' in formal terms, making this a wider contribution to the history of classical and Romantic aesthetics.' Modern Language Review