TY - BOOK AU - Foster,Gwendolyn Audrey TI - Troping the body: gender, etiquette, and performance SN - 0585323399 AV - BJ1853 .F62 2000eb U1 - 395/.01 21 PY - 2000/// CY - Carbondale PB - Southern Illinois University Press KW - Etiquette KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Savoir-vivre KW - Relations entre hommes et femmes KW - REFERENCE KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=46044 ER -