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

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations Series Ideologies of desire Ideologies of desire. 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 Analysis English literature Special subjects Paranormal phenomena History, 1702-1800 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century Sex (Psychology) in literature. Supernatural in literature. Femininity in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Femininity in literature Gothic revival (Literature) Invention (Rhetoric) Romanticism Sex (Psychology) in literature Supernatural in literature Women and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 94034700 ISBN 142375848X 9781423758488 9780195080971 0195080971 9786610443345 6610443343 0198024274 9780198024279

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