Laura Marcus (1956-2021) was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. She was the author of The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (OUP, 2007) and Dreams of Modernity (CUP, 2014), among many other titles. Her previous professorial appointments were at the University of Sussex and as Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh (2007-2009). She died in 2021 after a short illness.

• Introduction


• 1: Rhythm Studies: Science and Aesthetics


• 2: Rhythm, Art, and Experience: The Rhythm of Beauty


• 3: Communities of Rhythm: Eurythmy and Eurhythmics


• 4: Rhythm and the Rhythmists: A 'New Age' of Rhythm


• 5: Vital Rhythms: Art and Literature in Bloomsbury and Beyond


• 6: The American Rhythm: New Mexico, New Rhythms


• Afterword


• Appendix: Rhythm by Laura Marcus

Drawing on extensive archival research, Rhythmical Subjects shows the ways in which literature, dance, music, the visual arts, and architecture drew from, and fed into, the realms of social and anthropological thought.