Introduction
The terrain:
1. The theatre of the city: urbanisation, performance and spectatorship in fin-de-siecle London and Paris
2. All the noblest arts expressed in the measured movements of a perfectly shaped body: embodiment and spectacular performances of gender
Spaces:
3. Epidemics of enchanting creatures: Loie Fuller and the Gaiety Theatre, London
4. Madness, dancing and the dancer: Jane Avril and the Salpetriere hospital, Paris
Image:
5. They are wise who advertise, in every generation: image and the female celebrity
6. The art of imitation: staging the cult of celebrity
Intersections:
7. Moving away from the muse: Art Nouveau, Naturalist and Symbolist practices on the popular stage
8. Avant-Garde Salomania: the most famous dancing girl in history?
Afterword
Bibliography