Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England

Bodies, Identities, and Power
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-58425-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 452 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ylivuori, Soile

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Framing the Stage: Politeness and the Body 2. Gendered Politeness and Power 3. Hypocrisy and Strategic Dissimulation 4. Playing with Public and Private 5. Multiple Identities 6. Discipline and Subversion. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Soile Ylivuori is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.