Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England write by Soile Ylivuori. This book was released on 2018-10-29. Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England
Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England write by Soile Ylivuori. This book was released on 2019. Women and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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"--
Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800
Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 write by Philip (Research Editor, New Dictionary Of National Biography) Carter. This book was released on 2014-07-30. Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain 1660-1800 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an account of masculinity in eighteenth century Britain. In particular it is concerned with the impact of an emergent polite society on notions of manliness and the gentleman. From the 1660s a new type of social behaviour, politeness, was promoted by diverse writers. Based on continental ideas of refinement, it stressed the merits of genuine and generous sociability as befitted a progressive and tolerant nation. Early eighteenth century writers encouraged men to acquire the characteristics of politeness by becoming urbane town gentlemen. Later commentators promoted an alternative culture of sensibility typified by the man of feeling. Central to both was the need to spend more time with women, now seen as key agents of refinement. The relationship demanded a reworking of what it meant to be manly. Being manly and polite was a difficult balancing act. Refined manliness presented new problems for eighteenth century men. What was the relationship between politeness and duplicity? Were feminine actions such as tears and physical delicacy acceptable or not? Critics believed polite society led to effeminacy, not manliness, and condemned this failure of male identity with reference to the fop. This book reveals the significance of social over sexual conduct for eighteenth century definitions of masculinity. It shows how features traditionally associated with nineteenth century models were well established in the earlier figure of the polite town-dweller or sentimental man of feeling. Using personal stories and diverse public statements drawn from conduct books, magazines, sermons and novels, this is a vivid account of the changing status of men and masculinity as Britain moved into the modern period.
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain write by Karen O'Brien. This book was released on 2009-03-05. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original study of how Enlightenment ideas shaped the lives of women and the work of eighteenth-century women writers.
Fashioning Masculinity
Fashioning Masculinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fashioning Masculinity write by Dr Michele Cohen. This book was released on 2002-01-08. Fashioning Masculinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the derogation of women and the French which accompanied the emergent 'masculine' English identity. While taciturnity became emblematic of the English gentleman's depth of mind and masculinity, sprightly conversation was seen as representing the shallow and inferior intellect of English women and the French of both sexes. Michele Cohen also demonstrates how visible evidence of girls' verbal and language learning skills served only to construe the female mind as inferior. She argues that this perception still has currency today.
