{"product_id":"9781442615878","title":"The Masqueraders, or Fatal Curiosity, and The Surprize, or Constancy Rewarded","description":"Author: Eliza Haywood\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781442615878\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Oct 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood's short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century gender and identity, the social history of masquerade, the dangers of courtship and seduction, and conceptions of elite and popular cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite their common theme of masquerade and seduction, the two short novels are a study in contrasts. The Masqueraders features the whirl of London life, with a libertine anti-hero and his serial seductions of women who believe that they can manipulate the social conventions that are expected to limit them. The Surprize, on the other hand, is an uncharacteristically sentimental story in which a similarly salacious plot ends in rewards for the good and virtuous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell suited to the teaching of these two texts, this volume contains annotated scholarly editions of both novels, an extensive introduction, and useful appendices that discuss the masquerade's role in eighteenth-century debates on gender, morality, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47919392587934,"sku":"ING-9781442615878","price":57.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781442615878.jpg?v=1782811170","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781442615878","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}