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Troping the body : gender, etiquette, and performance
- Title
- Troping the body : gender, etiquette, and performance / Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.
- Author
- Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey.
- Publication
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2000], ©2000.
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- Description
- xii, 148 pages; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-140) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Etiquette Texts and Performance -- 2. The Knight's Body and the Female Auctoritas: Christine de Pizan's Conduct Texts -- 3. Isabella Whitney and the Performative Poetics of Correction -- 4. The Dialogics of Sisterly Advice: Hannah Webster Foster, The Boarding School -- 5. Early African American Instruction and Correction: The Case of Frances E. W. Harper -- 6. Feasting on the Feminine: Emily Bronte's Poetic Discourse of Anticonduct -- 7. Regendering the Romantics: Renarrative Techniques of Victorian Conduct Writers -- 8. The Performing Body in Postmodern Conduct Narratives of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton -- 9. Early Women Filmmakers as Social Arbiters: "The Gaze of Correction" -- 10. Kasi Lemmons's Eve's Bayou as Conduct Text -- Conclusion: Gesturing Toward the Millennium.
- ISBN
- 0809322862 (alk. paper)
- 0809322870 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 99038549
- OCLC
- ocm41932496
- SCSB-3861045
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries