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

The Female Thermometer is a collection of Professor Castle's liveliest essays on female identity from the eighteeeth to the early twentieth century. Throughout the book are woven the themes which are constant in Castle's work: fantasy, hallucination, travesty, transgression, women, and sexual ambiguity. These essays form a coherennt and provocative exploration of a range of issues pertinent to gender studies.