Androgyny in Modern Literature

By Tracy Hargreaves

Book Overview

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 si cle to the present.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403902003
• ISBN13: 9781403902009
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.3"