Androgyny in Modern Literature
Description
Androgyny in Modern Literature engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have provided writers with an icon which has been appropriated in diverse ways. This fascinating new study traces different revisions of the psycho-sexual, embodied, cultural and feminist fantasies and repudiations of this unstable but enduring trope across a broad range of writers from the fin de siècle to the present.
Keywords
ANDROGYNY (PSYCHOLOGY)LITERATURE, MODERN_HISTORY AND CRITICISM_20TH CENTURY
2004Book
Author(s)TRACY HARGREAVES
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781403902009
LanguageEnglish
