Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction

by Terry Castle

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804714681
• ISBN13: 9780804714686
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"