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

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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 sex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Castle, Terry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Colección:Ideologies of desire.
Temas:
1700-1799
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.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature frénétique > Grande-Bretagne.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Invention (Rhétorique) > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Sexualité (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Surnaturel dans la littérature.
Féminité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Invention (Rhetoric)
Romanticism.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
English literature > Special subjects > Paranormal phenomena > History, 1702-1800
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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.

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