Books by Julie Townsend

Whether in the pages of a trashy novel, under the glow of gaslights, in a dance hall, or on the walls of art galleries, the figure of the female dancer haunts nineteenth-century French culture. Artists and writers of all kinds took on la danseuse as an emblem of their own artistic prowess.

First book of essays devoted to Coetzee's controversial novel, combining critical and pedagogical approaches.