The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
- ISBN-10
- 0198024274
- ISBN-13
- 9780198024279
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995-03-24
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Terry Castle Professor of English Stanford University
Description
Hunt, Leigh. Essays and Sketches. Ed. R. Brimley Johnson. London: H. Frowde, 1916. Hunt, Lynn. "The Many Bodies of Marie Antoinette." In Hunt, ed., Eroticism and the Body Politic, pp. 108-30. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University ...
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