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Dance as Symptomatic Expression

This detailed text, divided into an introductory essay and four chapters with extensive endnotes, is an exposition of the idea that dance, like hysteria, functions as a form of symptomatic expression. Felicia McCarren takes a strong stand: the "constellation of epistemological changes that Foucault identifies in nineteenth-century understandings of madness affected the dance history in question here ... what Foucault calls the 'pathologization' of madness with the development of the psychiatric hospital and the profession of psychiatry across the nineteenth century parallels a 'pathologization' of dance performance" (p. 27). As such, the book will be of interest to scholars of literature and culture studies as well as those working on the history of dance, drama, or performance. McCarren reviews some records on theatrical dancing, which as Romantic ballet was acclaimed by the public 150 years ago. She argues that this was a form in which dancers were revered as well as reviled. The inherent risks of