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Fuseli's Milton Gallery: Satan's First Address to Eve as a Source for Maria Edgeworth's Belinda.(Critical Essay)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20010322
Author:CASS, JEFFREY

Early in the narrative of Belinda, Maria Edgeworth uses Lady Singleton's masquerade ball to unveil the virtues and defects of her principal characters. Lady Delacour, Belinda's social sponsor, vacillates between dressing as a tragic or a comic muse. At the last minute she exchanges her tragic costume with Belinda's comic one to foil Clarence Hervey's attempts to discover her true identity. For his part, Hervey, as determined to unmask Lady Delacour as she is bent on resisting his unmasking, has wagered with a friend that he can successfully disguise himself, "perform[ing] the part ...

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