Masquerade and Civilization
Title | Masquerade and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Castle |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804714686 |
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 who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban corruption. Authorities clearly saw it as a profound challenge to social order and persistently sought to suppress it. The book is in two parts. In the first, the author recreates the historical phenomenon of the English masquerade: the makeup of the crowds, the symbolic language of costume, and the various codes of verbal exchange, gesture, and sexual behavior. The second part analyzes contemporary literary representations of the masquerade, using novels by Richardson, Fielding, Burney, and Inchbald to show how the masquerade in fiction reflected the disruptive power it had in contemporary life. It also served as an indispensable plot-catalyst, generating the complications out of which the essential drama of the fiction emerged. An epilogue discusses the use of the masquerade as a literary device after the eighteenth century. The book contains some 40 illustrations.
Masquerade & Civilization: The Carnavalesque in 18th English Culture & Fiction
Title | Masquerade & Civilization: The Carnavalesque in 18th English Culture & Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Castle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 1986 |
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The Tyrant Baru Cormorant
Title | The Tyrant Baru Cormorant PDF eBook |
Author | Seth Dickinson |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466875143 |
Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with the “literally breathtaking” (NPR) The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third book, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and Baru is among them. But the Cancrioth's weapon cannot distinguish the guilty from the innocent. If it escapes quarantine, the ancient hemorrhagic plague called the Kettling will kill hundreds of millions...not just in Falcrest, but all across the world. History will end in a black bloodstain. Is that justice? Is this really what Tain Hu hoped for when she sacrificed herself? Baru's enemies close in from all sides. Baru's own mind teeters on the edge of madness or shattering revelation. Now she must choose between genocidal revenge and a far more difficult path—a conspiracy of judges, kings, spies and immortals, puppeteering the world's riches and two great wars in a gambit for the ultimate prize. If Baru had absolute power over the Imperial Republic, she could force Falcrest to abandon its colonies and make right its crimes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals
Title | West African Masking Traditions and Diaspora Masquerade Carnivals PDF eBook |
Author | Raphael Chijioke Njoku |
Publisher | Rochester Studies in African H |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2020-06-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781580469845 |
A revisionist account of African masquerade carnivals in transnational context that offers readers a unique perspective on the connecting threads between African cultural trends and African American cultural artifacts
Chora 4
Title | Chora 4 PDF eBook |
Author | Alberto Pérez-Gomez |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2004-07-05 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0773570802 |
Chora IV continues a tradition of excellence in open, interdisciplinary research into architecture.
The Whore's Story
Title | The Whore's Story PDF eBook |
Author | Bradford K. Mudge |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 298 |
Release | 2000-06-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0198030878 |
This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the novel, and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of crucial importance to the emergence of a new, middle-class state. Looking closely at sermons, medical manuals, periodical essays, and political tracts as well as poetry, novels, and literary criticism, The Whore's Story tracks the shifting politics of pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain and charts the rise of modern, pornographic sensibilities.
The Female Thermometer
Title | The Female Thermometer PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Castle |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN | 019508098X |
A collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.