| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 295 pages). |
| Series |
Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies |
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Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies.
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| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 9, 2018). |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Framing the stage : politeness and the body -- Gendered politeness and power -- Hypocrisy and strategic dissimulation -- Playing with public and private -- Multiple identities -- Discipline and subversion. |
| Biography |
Soile Ylivuori is a Marie Sk±odowska-Curie Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. |
| Subject |
England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
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Courtesy -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
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HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century.
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HISTORY / Social History.
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HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
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Courtesy. (OCoLC)fst00881711
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Women -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01176947
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1799
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ylivuori, Soile, author. Women and politeness in eighteenth-century England New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9781138318663 (DLC) 2018016210 |
| ISBN |
9780429454431 (electronic book) |
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0429454430 (electronic book) |
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9780429845697 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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0429845693 (electronic book : EPUB) |
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9780429845680 (electronic book : Mobipocket) |
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0429845685 (electronic book : Mobipocket) |
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9780429845703 (electronic book : PDF) |
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0429845707 (electronic book : PDF) |
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9781138318663 |
