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Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels
Jill Campbell
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Description for Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 421.
A Stanford University Press classic.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
Number of Pages
340
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804725200
SKU
V9780804725200
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Reviews for Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels
"This excellent study of Fielding's works takes as its central metaphor the masque (or mask) used throughout his career to explore the often complicated relationships among biological sex, gender, sexuality, and identity. The author is impressive both in her scope . . . and in her incisiveness. . . . This is a major work."—Choice