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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 literature, Femininity in literature, Gothic revival (Literature), History, History and criticism, Invention (Rhetoric), Romanticism, Sex (Psychology) in literature, Supernatural in literature, Women and literature, Femininity (Psychology) in literature, Women, history, modern period, 1600-Places
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The female thermometer: eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny
1995, Oxford University Press
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Female thermometer: eighteenth-century cultureand the invention of the uncanny
1995, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index.
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