Women and politeness in eighteenth-century England : bodies, identities, and power /
"This first in-depth study of women's politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women's autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic materia...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This first in-depth study of women's politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women's autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities, and women's possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429454431 0429454430 9780429845697 0429845693 9780429845680 0429845685 9780429845703 0429845707 |