Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women by Catherine A. Craft-Fairchild

Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women

Catherine A. Craft-Fairchild

204 pages paperback

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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...

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