Natural Masques: Gender And Identity In Fielding's Plays And Novels -

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has toning to edges of boards and spine, binding tight, text has a few pages with ink underlining and marginalia. DJ has sun to spine, mild rubbing.

Hardback. New. The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries.

Stanford Univ Pr, 1995. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 340 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.25 inches.

Stanford University Press, 1995-03-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!