The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the UncannyA 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Female Thermometer | 21 |
A Psychosexual Pattern in Defoes Roxana | 44 |
Lovelaces Dream | 56 |
Fieldings The Female Husband | 67 |
Sexuality and Masquerade in EighteenthCentury England | 82 |
The Carnivalization of EighteenthCentury English Narrative | 101 |
The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho | 120 |
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