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

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Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585323399
9780585323398

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Troping the body.DDC classification:

395/.01 21

LOC classification:

BJ1853 .F62 2000eb

Other classification:

71.31
17.86
HD 300

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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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