Masquerade and Civilization: Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-century English Culture and Fiction

Terry Castle

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 January 1986
Pages
409
ISBN
9780804713139

Masquerade and Civilization: Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-century English Culture and Fiction

Terry Castle

Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. This study shows how they played a subversive role in the eighteenth century imagination.

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