University Professor in English Literature
Kazimierz Wielki University, Department of Anglophone Literatures
Research expertise
Eighteenth-century fiction and visual culture
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Masquerades in London
Masquerades – sociable assemblies of masked participants – developed into forms of public entertainment in eighteenth-century London, often welcoming crowds of participants in the fashionable centres of the metropolis, such as the Haymarket Theatre, Vauxhall Gardens or Ranelagh Gardens. The masquerade phenomenon provides insight into the category of personhood that was negotiated through a sociable performance of anonymity and new ‘selves’.