Masquerade and Gender : : Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women / / Catherine A. Craft-Fairchild.
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Craft-Fairchild, Catherine A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Masquerade and Gender : Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women / Catherine A. Craft-Fairchild. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©1993 1 online resource (204 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aphra Behn's The Dumb Virgin and Mary Davys's The Accomplished Rake: The Darker Side of Masquerade -- 3. Eliza Haywood and the Masquerade of Femininity -- 4. Elizabeth Inchbald's Not So Simple Story -- 5. Feminine Excess: Frances Burney's The Wanderer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period-Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases, masquerade is the condition of femininity: gender in the woman's novel is constructed rather than essential.Craft-Fairchild examines the guises in which womanhood appears, analyzing the ways in which women writers both construct and deconstruct eighteenth-century cultural conceptions of femininity. She offers a careful and engaging textual analysis of both canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels. Detailed readings are informed throughout by the ideas of current feminist theorists, including Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, and Kaja Silverman. Instead of assuming that fictions about women were based on biological fact, Craft-Fairchild stresses the opposite: the domestic novel itself constructs the domestic woman. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021) Disguise in literature. English fiction Women authors History and criticism. English fiction 18th century History and criticism. Femininity in literature. Identity (Psychology) in literature. Sex role in literature. Women and literature Great Britain History 18th century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783110745269 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271074863?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271074863 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780271074863.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aphra Behn's The Dumb Virgin and Mary Davys's The Accomplished Rake: The Darker Side of Masquerade -- 3. Eliza Haywood and the Masquerade of Femininity -- 4. Elizabeth Inchbald's Not So Simple Story -- 5. Feminine Excess: Frances Burney's The Wanderer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aphra Behn's The Dumb Virgin and Mary Davys's The Accomplished Rake: The Darker Side of Masquerade -- 3. Eliza Haywood and the Masquerade of Femininity -- 4. Elizabeth Inchbald's Not So Simple Story -- 5. Feminine Excess: Frances Burney's The Wanderer -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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