Add to ORKGEnglish honors thesisThe essence of the masquerade ball is one of secrecy and fantasy. As a uniquely 18th century phenomenon, the masquerade was an environment where one can transform into anything imaginable. One of the most prolific female authors during this period, Eliza Fowler Haywood, sought to capture the luxury and imagination of the masquerade within her novels published from 1724 to 1725: The Masqueraders and Fantomina. For Haywood's female protagonists, the setting of the masquerade ball, along with its associated elements such as masks and disguises, grants them sexual power in addition to the power of the gaze, a privilege previously held by men. As Karin Kukkonen notes in her essay, “The Minds Behind the Mask: Reading for Char...
This article locates Fantomina in a literary tradition that proposes all-female communities, such as...
In Eliza Haywood\u27s fiction, as in eighteenth-century Britain, social restrictions repress the sex...
This study is an examination of how gendered characters in eighteenth-century British women\u27s fic...
The eighteenth-century in Britain was a time in which women’s attempt to liberate themselves sexuall...
My thesis connects Eliza Haywood with the Hillarians, a London-based coterie of young writers and ar...
This study investigates how Eliza Haywood addressed ideological conflicts about gender produced by m...
This thesis analyzes scenes of “masquerade” in three literary texts, the Oresteia of Aeschylus (458 ...
Through the device of masquerade, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances\ud Burney explore ne...
200 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.This dissertation explores th...
When analyzing Eliza Haywood’s fiction, most critics focus on her use of sexuality and eroticism and...
This dissertation explores the surprising intersections among women\u27s scandalous fiction and othe...
Within the pages of Eliza Haywood\u27s novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a me...
Eliza Haywood’s works are often contentious and are daring in nature, and are often construed as reb...
Narrative, Gender, and Masquerade tracks the way the American novel of manners structures itself on ...
This dissertation explores amatory fiction as a genre significant to English literary history. I gro...
This article locates Fantomina in a literary tradition that proposes all-female communities, such as...
In Eliza Haywood\u27s fiction, as in eighteenth-century Britain, social restrictions repress the sex...
This study is an examination of how gendered characters in eighteenth-century British women\u27s fic...
The eighteenth-century in Britain was a time in which women’s attempt to liberate themselves sexuall...
My thesis connects Eliza Haywood with the Hillarians, a London-based coterie of young writers and ar...
This study investigates how Eliza Haywood addressed ideological conflicts about gender produced by m...
This thesis analyzes scenes of “masquerade” in three literary texts, the Oresteia of Aeschylus (458 ...
Through the device of masquerade, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, and Frances\ud Burney explore ne...
200 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.This dissertation explores th...
When analyzing Eliza Haywood’s fiction, most critics focus on her use of sexuality and eroticism and...
This dissertation explores the surprising intersections among women\u27s scandalous fiction and othe...
Within the pages of Eliza Haywood\u27s novels, masquerade is often used by female characters as a me...
Eliza Haywood’s works are often contentious and are daring in nature, and are often construed as reb...
Narrative, Gender, and Masquerade tracks the way the American novel of manners structures itself on ...
This dissertation explores amatory fiction as a genre significant to English literary history. I gro...
This article locates Fantomina in a literary tradition that proposes all-female communities, such as...
In Eliza Haywood\u27s fiction, as in eighteenth-century Britain, social restrictions repress the sex...
This study is an examination of how gendered characters in eighteenth-century British women\u27s fic...