Masquerade and gender :

Craft-Fairchild, Catherine.

Masquerade and gender : disguise and female identity in eighteenth-century fictions by women / Catherine Craft-Fairchild. - University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1993. - x, 190 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-184) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Aphra Behn's The Dumb Virgin and Mary Davys's The Accomplished Rake: The Darker Side of Masquerade -- 3. Eliza Haywood and the Masquerade of Femininity -- 4. Elizabeth Inchbald's Not So Simple Story -- 5. Feminine Excess: Frances Burney's The Wanderer.

0271009187 (acidfree paper) : $35.00 0271009195 (pbk. : acidfree paper) : $14.95

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English fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--18th century.
English fiction--History and criticism.--18th century
Femininity in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Disguise in literature.

PR858.W6 / C73 1993

823/.5099287

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