Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women

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 eighteeth-century texts, thereby setting lesser-read fictions into a critical dialogue with more widely known novels.Craft-Fairchild, Catherine is the author of 'Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women' with ISBN 9780271009193 and ISBN 0271009195.