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Tables of Contents for Troping the Body
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xi
Etiquette Texts and Performance
1
18
The Knight's Body and the Female Auctoritas: Christine de Pizan's Conduct Texts
19
13
Isabella Whitney and the Performative Poetics of Correction
32
15
The Dialogics of Sisterly Advice: Hannah Webster Foster, The Boarding School
47
14
Early African American Instruction and Correction: The Case of Frances E. W. Harper
61
11
Feasting on the Feminine: Emily Bronte's Poetic Discourse of Anticonduct
72
13
Regendering the Romantics: Renarrative Techniques of Victorian Conduct Writers
85
10
The Performing Body in Postmodern Conduct Narratives of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton
95
7
Early Women Filmmakers as Social Arbiters: ``The Gaze of Correction''
102
13
Kasi Lemmon's Eve's Bayou as Conduct Text
115
16
Conclusion: Gesturing Toward the Millennium
126
5
Works Cited and Consulted
131
10
Index
141