The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny

By Terry Castle

Book Overview

A 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195080971
• ISBN13: 9780195080971
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

fascinating

This book is brilliant, fascinating and full of surprises - at every turn. There's no need to have any background in the 18C before reading it, though it does help.