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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aCraft-Fairchild, Catherine A. _eautore
245	1	0	_aMasquerade and Gender : _bDisguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women / _cCatherine A. Craft-Fairchild.
264		1	_aUniversity Park, PA : _bPenn State University Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©1993
300			_a1 online resource (204 p.)
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _t1. Introduction -- _t2. Aphra Behn's The Dumb Virgin and Mary Davys's The Accomplished Rake: The Darker Side of Masquerade -- _t3. Eliza Haywood and the Masquerade of Femininity -- _t4. Elizabeth Inchbald's Not So Simple Story -- _t5. Feminine Excess: Frances Burney's The Wanderer -- _tConclusion -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aTerry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period-Addison, Steele, and Fielding all insisted that masquerade allowed women to usurp the privileges of men. Female authors, however, often mistrusted these claims, perceiving that masquerade's apparent freedoms were frequently nothing more than sophisticated forms of oppression. Catherine Craft-Fairchild's work provides a useful corrective to Castle's treatment of masquerade. She argues that, in fictions by Aphra Behn, Mary Davys, Eliza Haywood, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Frances Burney, masquerade is double-sided. It is represented in some cases as a disempowering capitulation to patriarchal strictures that posit female subordination. Often within the same text, however, masquerade is also depicted as an empowering defiance of the dominant norms for female behavior. Heroines who attempt to separate themselves from the image of womanhood they consciously construct escape victimization. In both cases, masquerade is the condition of femininity: gender in the woman's novel is constructed rather than essential.Craft-Fairchild examines the guises in which womanhood appears, analyzing the ways in which women writers both construct and deconstruct eighteenth-century cultural conceptions of femininity. She offers a careful and engaging textual analysis of both canonical and noncanonical eighteenth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels. Detailed readings are informed throughout by the ideas of current feminist theorists, including Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Mary Ann Doane, and Kaja Silverman. Instead of assuming that fictions about women were based on biological fact, Craft-Fairchild stresses the opposite: the domestic novel itself constructs the domestic woman.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)
650		0	_aDisguise in literature.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _xWomen authors _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aFemininity in literature.
650		0	_aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aSex role in literature.
650		0	_aWomen and literature _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y18th century.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. _2bisacsh
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856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780271074863?locatt=mode:legacy
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