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The Female Thermometer: EighteenthCentury Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (Ideologies of Desire)
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The work of leading scholar Terry Castle, called by the New York Times always engaging...consistently fascinating, has helped to revolutionize eighteenthcentury studies. The Female Thermometer brings together Castles essays on the phantasmagoric side of eighteenthcentury literature and culture. Taking as her emblem the fanciful female thermometer, an imaginary instrument invented by eighteenthcentury satirists to measure levels of female sexual arousal, Castle explores what she calls the impinging strangeness of the eighteenthcentury imaginationthe ways in which the rationalist imperatives of the age paradoxically worked to produce what Freud would later call the uncanny. In essays on doubling and fantasy in the novels of Defoe and Richardson, sexual impersonators and the dreamlike world of the eighteenthcentury masquerade, magiclantern shows, automata, and other surreal inventions of Enlightenment science, and the hallucinatory obsessions of Gothic fiction, Castle offers a haunting portrait of a remarkable epoch. Her collection explores the links between material culture, gender, and the rise of modern forms and formulas of subjectivity, effectively rewriting the cultural history of modern Europe from a materialist and feminist perspective.
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