1st Edition
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England Bodies, Identities, and Power
By Soile Ylivuori
Copyright 2019
308 Pages
by
Routledge
308 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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... Read more
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
Biography
Soile Ylivuori is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Queen Mary, University of London.
