Female Thermometer : 18th-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny.

By: CastleMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Ideologies of Desire SerPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780198024279Subject(s): English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Femininity in literature | Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain | Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century | Sex (Psychology) in literature | Supernatural in literature | Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Female Thermometer : 18th-Century Culture and the Invention of the UncannyDDC classification: 305.4209033 | 820.937 LOC classification: PR448.G6 -- C37 1995ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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 -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: 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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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 -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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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