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

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

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Castle, Terry (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press 1995.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Ideologies of desire.
Materias:
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.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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