Masquerades in London [ Dance, Music & Songs / Social interaction ]
… needed more affluent patrons to guarantee entrance (as can be seen, for example, in the well-known masquerade scenes in Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Amelia , Samuel Richardson’s Pamela or Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle ). The masquerade … lower strata). The divide separating the selective balls from the more democratised ones is visible in a commentary by Henry Fielding, in which social hierarchies are supported by means of moralising discourse: I cannot dismiss this Head, …
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