Linda M. Austin

Bio

Linda M. Austin is Professor of English at Oklahoma State University and the author of Nostalgia in Transition (2007) and The Practical Ruskin (1991).

Contributions

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From the Print Journal
© 2016 Johns Hopkins University Press In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a number of ballets entered the classical repertory that featured marionettes and activated dolls. Arlequinada (1900), Die Puppenfee (1903), Petrouchka (1911), and the immediate parent of these productions, Coppélia (1870), all focus on the imitation of living people through the movements of automatized figures. Coppélia, the first of these pieces, opened during a prolonged period of malaise—stretching...