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Troping the body : gender, etiquette, and performance / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585323399
  • 9780585323398
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Troping the body.DDC classification:
  • 395/.01 21
LOC classification:
  • BJ1853 .F62 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140) and index.

Print version record.

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.

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