Modernism's Mythic Pose Gender, Genre, Solo Performance

"Clearly written and carefully researched, this study systematically analyzes the semiotics of gesture. Recommended." --CHOICE
"In this carefully researched study, Carrie J. Preston uncovers the myriad influences of French movement visionary Francois Delsarte on modern dance, film, and literature, and reminds us of the importance of performance history for understanding modernism more generally." --Martin Puchner, author of The Drama of Ideas
"Lucidly written and solidly argued, Modernism's Mythic Pose excavates a fascinating classicist-antimodernist genealogy of modernism. Preston's impressive historical research interrupts the standard gendered dichotomy of antimodernism and avant-gardism and makes an important contribution to reconceiving transatlantic modernism." --Laura Winkiel, author of Modernism, Race, and Manifestos