Research Catalog

Title

Masquerade and civilization : the carnivalesque in eighteenth-century English culture and fiction / Terry Castle.

Author

Castle, Terry

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1986.

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Details

Description

x, 395 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• English fiction > 18th century > History and criticism
• Masquerades in literature
• Masquerades > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Social life and customs > 18th century

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 371-381.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The masquerade and eighteenth-century England -- Travesty and the fate of the carnivalesque -- Literary transformations: the masquerade in English fiction -- The recarnivalization of Pamela: Richardson's Pamela, part 2 -- Masquerade and allegory: Fielding's Amelia -- Masquerade and Utopia I: Burney's Cecilia -- Masquerade and Utopia II: Inchbald's A simple story -- Epilogue: The masquerade topos after the eighteenth century.

ISBN

• 0804713138 (alk. paper)
• 0804714681 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^86001942^

OCLC

• 13158111
• SCSB-11410261

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library