Natural Masques Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels |
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| Author:
| Campbell, Jill |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-2520-0 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1995 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries.
The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries.