Rethinking the Sylph: New Perspectives on the Romantic Ballet

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I am deeply grateful to the authors whose essays follow. Without their patience, generosity, and intellectual fellowship, this volume would never have materialized. I am also grateful to the Studies in Dance History editorial board for its enthusiastic support of the project, Suzanna Tamminen of Wesleyan University Press for welcoming it to one of this country's most distinguished dance publishers, and Joan Greenfield for designing it with her usual unerring eye and sense of movement. The staff of the Dance Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, was unfailingly helpful in locating material for illustrations. I am indebted to Gordon Hollis of the Golden Legend, Inc., who kindly allowed a Daumier caricature in his possession to be reproduced, and to Joan Erdman, who brought a historian's sensibility to the excellent index. Finally, I wish to thank my husband, Eric Foner, for generosities too numerous to mention , and my daughter, Daria Rose, who first went up on pointe as these pages were edited. -L.G. Editorial note: Where material from more than one division of the Bibliothkque Nationale, Paris, is cited in the endnotes, the abbreviation "BN" is used along with a shortened form of the division name: hence, "BNMusique " (for the DCpartement de Musique) and "BN-OpCra" (for the Bibliothtque de 1'OpCra). R E T H I N K I N G T H E S Y L P H ...