Social Conduct Literature

Social Conduct Literature Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Preface to A Father's Legacy to His Daughters, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, and A Mother's Advice to Her Daughters
  • The Practical Guidebooks
  • Courtesy, Conduct and Etiquette: An Overview
• Criticism: Prescriptive Ideology In Other Literary Forms
  • Medieval Courtesy Literature and Dramatic Mirrors of Female Conduct
  • The Discourse on Marriage in the Middle Ages
• Criticism: The Role Of The Press
  • ‘Fair-sexing it’: An Introduction to Periodical Literature and the Eighteenth-Century Construction of Femininity
  • Ros Ballaster, Margaret Beetham, Elizabeth Frazer, and Sandra Hebron (essay date 1991)
    • Eighteenth-Century Women's Magazines
• Criticism: The Impact Of Conduct Literature
  • The Literature of Conduct, the Conduct of Literature, and the Politics of Desire: An Introduction
  • Nets and Bridles: Early Modern Conduct Books and Sixteenth Century Women's Lyrics
  • Conduct
• Conduct Literature And The Perception Of Women
• Women Writing For Women
• Further Reading