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

by Terry Castle

Book Overview

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 brings together Castle's essays on the phantasmagoric side of 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019508098X
• ISBN13: 9780195080988
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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.