The female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

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Castle, Terry

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Ideologies of desirePublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

142375848X
9781423758488
9780195080971
0195080971
9786610443345
6610443343
0198024274
9780198024279

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Female thermometer.DDC classification:

820.9/37 20

LOC classification:

PR448.G6 C37 1995eb

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Contents:

"Amy who knew my Disease": A psychosexual pattern in Defoe's Roxana -- Lovelace's Dream -- "Matters not fit to be mentioned": Fielding's The Female Husband -- The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England -- The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative -- The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho -- Phantasmagoria and Metaphorics of Modern Reverie -- Spectral politics: Apparition belief and the romantic imagination -- Contagious Folly: An Adventure and its skeptics.

Summary: The female thermometer is a collection of Professor Castle's liveliest essays on female identity from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Throughout the book are woven the themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression, women, and sexual ambiguity. These essays form a coherent and provocative exploration of a range of issues pertinent to gender studies.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.

The female thermometer is a collection of Professor Castle's liveliest essays on female identity from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Throughout the book are woven the themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression, women, and sexual ambiguity. These essays form a coherent and provocative exploration of a range of issues pertinent to gender studies.

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