The female thermometer [[electronic resource] ] : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / / Terry Castle
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| Autore: |
Castle Terry
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| Titolo: |
The female thermometer [[electronic resource] ] : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / / Terry Castle
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.4209033 |
| 820.937 | |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Femininity in literature | |
| Sex (Psychology) in literature | |
| Supernatural in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Imagination |
| 11 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; Z | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The female thermometer |
| ISBN: | 1-4237-5848-X |
| 1-60256-621-6 | |
| 1-280-44334-0 | |
| 0-19-802427-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454637603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Ideologies of desire.