The Female Thermometer

The Female Thermometer
Author: Terry Castle
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 1995
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 019508098X

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.