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