4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist Aesthetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Social Choreography and the Aesthetic Continuum 1
4. 1. The Body of Marsyas: Aesthetic Socialism and the Physiology of the Sublime 37
5. 2. Stumbling and Legibility: Gesture and the Dialectic of Tact 78
6. 3. ‘‘America Makes Me Sick!’’: Nationalism, Race, Gender, and Hysteria 117
7. 4. The Scandalous Male Icon: Nijinsky and the Queering of Symbolist Aesthetics 156
8. 5. From Woman to Girl: Mass Culture and Gender Panic 177
9. Notes 213
10. Index 249