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The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire)
The Female Thermometer EighteenthCentury Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny - Ideologies of Desire
Author: Terry Castle
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 p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195080988
ISBN-10: 019508098X
Publication Date: 3/24/1995
Pages: 292
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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