The Female Thermometer
Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
Published on 29. June 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-19-508098-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
The Female Thermometer is filled with incisive observations that make us re-examine the broad preconceptions we hold about the 18th century and reassess some of its specific cultural artifacts. The New York TimesMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
halftones
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-508098-8 (9780195080988)
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Additional editions
E-Book
06/1995
1st Edition
Oxford University Press, UK
€58.09
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Person
Terry Castle is Professor of English at Stanford University. She is the author of The Apparitional Lesbian (1993) and editor of the Oxford's forthcoming The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology.