Masquerade and Gender : : Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women / / Catherine A. Craft-Fairchild.
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-Add...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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