... cautionary advice, but also literalises the "heart and stomach of a king" in the cross dressing Cleophila. In his letter preceding The Old Arcadia Sidney is quick to dismiss his pastoral romance as an "idle work". Such a comment invites the reader to look past this initial reflection. In a highly artificial tableau, his mirror offers a distorted manifestation of Elizabethan court and the Queen ... ...

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In the book "The Body Project", Joan Jacobs Brumberg examines how the social changes of the last century have affected the ways in which teenage girls regard their bodies and themselves. By the use of various historical documents, including the many diaries of adolescent women, the author looks at t...

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