The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire) - Softcover

Castle, Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019508098X ISBN 13: 9780195080988

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1995

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Book by Castle Terry

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The Female Thermometer is filled with incisive observations that make us re-examine the broad preconceptions we hold about the 18th century and reassess some of its specific cultural artifacts. (The New York Times)

Reseña del editor:

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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• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 019508098X
• ISBN 13: 9780195080988
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294