ISBN:
019508098X
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0195080971
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9780195080988
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (278 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Ideologies of desire
Series Statement:
Ideologies of Desire Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als The Female Thermometer : Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
DDC:
305.4209033
Keywords:
Romanticism History 18th century
;
Gothic revival (Literature)
;
Women and literature History 18th century
;
English literature History and criticism 18th century
;
Sex (Psychology) in literature
;
Supernatural in literature
;
Femininity in literature
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Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
;
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
;
Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain
;
English literature ; 18th century ; History and criticism
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Femininity in literature
;
Gothic revival (Literature) ; Great Britain
;
Romanticism ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century
;
Sex (Psychology) in literature
;
Supernatural in literature
;
Women and literature ; Great Britain ; History ; 18th century
;
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 The Female Thermometer; 3 ""Amy, Who Knew my Disease"": A Psychosexual Pattern in Defoe's Roxana; 4 Lovelace's Dream; 5 ""Matters Not Fit to be Mentioned"": Fielding's The Female Husband; 6 The Culture of Travesty: Sexuality and Masquerade in Eighteenth-Century England; 7 The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative; 8 The Spectralization of the Other in The Mysteries of Udolpho; 9 Phantasmagoria and the Metaphorics of Modern Reverie; 10 Spectral Politics: Apparition Belief and the Romantic Imagination
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Contagious Folly: An Adventure and Its SkepticsNotes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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