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Masquerade and Civilization : The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction
by Terry Castle
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0521578922
- ISBN 13
- 9780521578929
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Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1986. Softcover. Very Good Condition. 22.7 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm. An excellent copy in great condition. Only faint wear to cover. All pages clean, crisp and fresh. Publisher's note: Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it.The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior.The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations. Size: 22.7 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm. x, 395 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Masquerades in literature; Masquerades -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; ISBN: 0521578922. ISBN/EAN: 9780521578929. Add. Inventory No: 240219SWQ010056. . 9780521578929
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- Barnaby (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 240219SWQ010056
- Title
- Masquerade and Civilization : The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction
- Author
- Terry Castle
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0521578922
- ISBN 13
- 9780521578929
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, Calif.
- Date Published
- 1986
- Size
- 22.7 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm
- Keywords
- BZDB428 Literature & Literary; English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Masquerades in literature; Masquerades -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; ISBN: 0521578922 EAN: 9780521578929 Terry Castle
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