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

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

Terry Castle

396 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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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 wh...

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