Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding's Plays and Novels

Author/Contributor(s):	Campbell, Jill
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	03/01/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.