Female Thermometer
Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 1995
289 pages
978-0-19-802427-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- 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 Skeptics
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
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