Terry Castle
Forfatter af The Professor and Other Writings
Om forfatteren
Terry Castle is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University
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Værker af Terry Castle
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny (1995) 62 eksemplarer
Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction (1986) 21 eksemplarer
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- Fødselsdato
- 1953-10-18
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- San Diego, California, USA
- Bopæl
- San Francisco, California, USA
England, UK - Uddannelse
- University of Puget Sound
University of Minnesota - Erhverv
- literary scholar
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- Stanford University
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Extremely useful resource for Lesbian, Feminist and Women's Lit Crit. Despite the fact that it weighs 20 lbs and I'm apt to destroy the dust jacket, I reference this book almost every day. Beware, many of the cited works you will not be able to lay your hands on with any ease.
I resisted this book at first because I found the voice so wordy and academic. But I ended up getting to used to the voice, feeling really involved with the characters, and loving the way she thinks about art and life. The whole thing was incredibly intriguing. By the end I couldn't put it down. I'm still surprised by how much I liked it.
I resisted this book at first because I found the voice so wordy and academic. But I ended up getting to used to the voice, feeling really involved with the characters, and loving the way she thinks about art and life. The whole thing was incredibly intriguing. By the end I couldn't put it down. I'm still surprised by how much I liked it.
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Just to note that Terry Castle focused so much on 20th century philosophy in her study, but she completely ignored the philosophers who did indeed influence Richardson, namely Hobbes and Montaigne. As a result her analysis is from time to time anachronistic.… (mere)