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Troping the body :

Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey.

Troping the body : gender, etiquette, and performance / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140) and index.

Etiquette texts and performance -- The knight's body and the female auctoritas: Christine de Pizan's conduct texts -- Isabella Whitney and the performative poetics of correction -- The dialogics of sisterly advice: Hannah Webster Foster, the boarding school -- Early African American instruction and correction: the case of Frances E. W. Harper -- Feasting on the feminine: Emily Bronte's poetic discourse of anticonduct -- Regendering the romantics: renarrative techniques of Victorian conduct writers -- The performing body in postmodern conduct narratives of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton -- Early women filmmakers as social arbiters: "the gaze of correction" -- Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou as conduct text.

0585323399 9780585323398

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Etiquette.
Man-woman relationships.
Etiquette.
Savoir-vivre.
Relations entre hommes et femmes.
REFERENCE--Etiquette.
Etiquette.
Man-woman relationships.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

BJ1853 / .F62 2000eb

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