03419nam 2200769Ia 450 991045463760332120200520144314.01-4237-5848-X1-60256-621-61-280-44334-00-19-802427-4(CKB)1000000000702434(EBL)272922(OCoLC)476013307(SSID)ssj0000154072(PQKBManifestationID)11163861(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154072(PQKBWorkID)10407357(PQKB)10251090(MiAaPQ)EBC272922(Au-PeEL)EBL272922(CaPaEBR)ebr10279148(CaONFJC)MIL44334(EXLCZ)99100000000070243419940810d1995 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe female thermometer[electronic resource] eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny /Terry CastleNew York Oxford University Press19951 online resource (289 p.)Ideologies of desireDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-508098-X 0-19-508097-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index.Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Female Thermometer; 3 ""Amy, Who Knew my Disease"": A Psychosexual Pattern in Defoe's Roxana; 4 Lovelace's Dream; 5 ""Matters Not Fit to be Mentioned"": Fielding's The Female Husband; 6 The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England; 7 The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative; 8 The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho; 9 Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie; 10 Spectral Politics: Apparition Belief and the Romantic Imagination11 Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its SkepticsNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZA collection of the author's essays on the history and development of female identity from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. Throughout the book are woven themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression and sexual ambiguity.Ideologies of desire.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismGothic revival (Literature)Great BritainWomen and literatureGreat BritainHistory18th centuryRomanticismGreat BritainHistory18th centuryFemininity in literatureSex (Psychology) in literatureSupernatural in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Gothic revival (Literature)Women and literatureHistoryRomanticismHistoryFemininity in literature.Sex (Psychology) in literature.Supernatural in literature.305.4209033820.937Castle Terry221242MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454637603321The female thermometer2095542UNINA