Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels (Gender and Identity in Fielding’s Plays and Novels)

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The author breaks with old critical commonplaces that contrast Fielding's "masculinity" with Samuel Richardson's "feminine" sensibilities. She argues that a preoccupation with the tenuousness of gendered identity appears throughout Fielding's writings, and that Fielding shared that preoccupation with his contemporaries.