The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire) Paperback - 1995
by Castle, Terry
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The work of leading scholar Terry Castle features essays on phantasmagoria in 18th-century literature and culture. Taking as her emblem the fanciful "female thermometer", an imaginary instrument invented by 18th-century satirists to measure levels of female sexual arousal, Castle explores the ways in which the rationalist imperative of the age paradoxically worked to produce the "impinging strangeness" of the 18th-century imagination.
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- Title The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire)
- Author Castle, Terry
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st edition,
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-05-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 210625-2759A-63A
- ISBN 9780195080988 / 019508098X
- Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 9.12 x 6.07 x 0.85 in (23.16 x 15.42 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects English literature - 18th century - History, Femininity in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94034700
- Dewey Decimal Code 820.937
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