Etiquette
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This presentation briefly explores the intersection of 19th century etiquette texts, fashion, and social performance as explored in Eliot's Mill on the Floss.
![Etiquette Texts
✤ Emerging middle class sought models
of “appropriate” behavior
✤ 1850s on: etiquette books claimed to
codify rules of a polite society
✤ Based upon the norms of the
supplanted 18th century aristocratic
society
✤ “There were particular ways of doing
everything in the [Dodson]
family...” (Eliot 86).](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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- 1. Fashion & Social Performance in The Mill on the Floss Megan K. Mize An Elegant And Precise Examination Of The Role Of Fashion Within A Polite Society, As Explored By G. Eliot
- 2. Etiquette Texts ✤ Emerging middle class sought models of “appropriate” behavior ✤ 1850s on: etiquette books claimed to codify rules of a polite society ✤ Based upon the norms of the supplanted 18th century aristocratic society ✤ “There were particular ways of doing everything in the [Dodson] family...” (Eliot 86).
- 3. The lady's guide to perfect gentility, in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc. Emily Thornwell 1856 ✤ Chapter I: Agreeableness and Beauty of Person ✤ Chapter II: Gentility and Refinement of Manners in all the Relations of Home and Society ✤ Chapter III: How to Combine Elegance, Style, and Economy ✤ Chapter IV: The Art of Conversing with Fluency and Propriety ✤ Chapter V: The Whole Art of Correct and Elegant Letter-Writing ✤ Chapter VI: Elegant Fancy Needle-work, Knitting, Netting, Crochet, Embroidery ✤ Chapter VII: The Art of Millinery and Dress-Making
- 4. The Etiquette of Fashion Women’s fashion constantly evolved, while adhering to strict rules of propriety
- 5. Clothing In Mill ✤ 1820’s- 30’s ✤ Context Determines Costume ✤ Aunts Glegg and Pullet ✤ Consciousness of Class and Taste as Represented through Appearance
- 6. Other Costuming Elements ✤ Fair Coloring: Skin and Hair ✤ Hair Styles: Curling ✤ Hair Pieces: “Fronts”
- 7. Costuming Elements Cont. Hats
- 8. Social Performance Text Explores Tensions Between Performance and Reality through Costuming
- 9. Nature vs Construct ✤ Castiglione: Effortless Grace ✤ 19th Century Evolution ✤ “It is a pathetic sight...” (Eliot 98-99)
- 10. Fashion & Reflexivity ✤ Individual Appearance Reflects on Group Status ✤ Gender Roles ✤ Contemplation of Female Figure
- 11. Conformity & Agency Maggie cuts her hair in response to social pressures This Moment Demonstrates The Ability To Act, While Highlighting The Extreme Difficulty Of Such Subversion
- 12. Further Discussion As such texts also existed for men, to what extent might a man control the construction of his identity via costuming? Were men equally constricted by contemporary fashions? How does Mill address the relation between men, appearance, and social status?
- 13. Bibliography Eliot, George. The Mill on the Floss. Ed. Oliver Lovesey. Ontario, Broadview Press, 2007. Print. Thornwell, Emily. The lady's guide to perfect gentility, in manners, dress, and conversation ... also a useful instructor in letter writing, toilet preparations, fancy needlework, millinery, dressmaking, care of wardrobe, the hair, teeth, hands, lips, complexion, etc. New York, Derby & Jackson. 1856. Print.
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