Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986). The rise of the masquerade thus understood is traditionally attributed to the arrival of John James … wrote about the changing states of consciousness, and David Hume , for whom ‘self’ was a loose compound of fleeting impressions. An epigonic reader of Locke, Edmund Law used the masquerade patterns as a way to explain Locke’s theory, … (114-5), the modern novel and the masquerade were by nature related, as both had a democratic potential and expressed tensions between morality and transgression. Masquerade scenes appeared in much of eighteenth-century narrative …
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