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The Masquerade: A History of Extravagance and Intrigue
by Meghan Kobza.
Yale, 368 pp., £25, May,978 0 300 27621 3 Show More
by Meghan Kobza.
Yale, 368 pp., £25, May,
“... of its participants and spectators alike?The social world of ‘extravagance and intrigue’ that Meghan Kobza explores in her new book has already been richly chronicled by Terry Castle in Masquerade and Civilisation (1986). In his monumental study of 18th-century identity, The Making of the Modern Self (2004), Dror Wahrman argues that ‘it is hard to ... ”
