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The female thermometer

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An edition of The female thermometer (1995)

The female thermometer

eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny

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The work of leading scholar Terry Castle, called by the New York Times "always engaging...consistently fascinating," has helped to revolutionize eighteenth-century studies. The Female Thermometer collects Castle's essays on phantasmagoria in eighteenth-century literature and culture.

Taking as her emblem the fanciful "female thermometer," an imaginary instrument invented by eighteenth-century satirists to measure levels of female sexual arousal, Castle explores the ways in which the rationalist imperatives of the age paradoxically worked to produce what Freud called the uncanny and what she calls the "impinging strangeness" of the eighteenth-century imagination.

Castle offers a haunting portrait of a remarkable epoch, with essays on doubling and fantasy in the novels of Defoe and Richardson, the hallucinatory obsessions of Gothic fiction, sexual impersonators, the dream-like world of the eighteenth-century masquerade, magic-lantern shows, automata, and other surreal inventions of Enlightenment science.

The Female Thermometer explores the links between material culture, gender, and the rise of modern forms and formulas of subjectivity, effectively rewriting the cultural history of modern Europe from a materialist and feminist perspective.

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English
Pages
278

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The female thermometer: eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny
1995, Oxford University Press
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Cover of: Female thermometer
Female thermometer: eighteenth-century cultureand the invention of the uncanny
1995, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index.

Published in
New York
Series
Ideologies of desire

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9/37
Library of Congress
PR448.G6 C37 1995, PR448.G6C37 1995

The Physical Object

Pagination
278 p. :
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1109325M
Internet Archive
femalethermomete00cast_876
ISBN 10
0195080971, 019508098X
LCCN
94034700
OCLC/WorldCat
31011820
Library Thing
516425
Goodreads
918754
918753

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