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Androgynous democracy : modern American literature and the dual-sexed body politic /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shaheen, Aaron
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2010]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • "The social dusk of that mysterious democracy": race, sexology, and the modern woman in Henry James's postbellum America
  • Commercial androgyny: reformulating the modern liberal subject in Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Reactionary and radical androgyny: two southerners assess the depression-era body politic
  • Race, gender, and democratic space in W.E.B. Du Bois and Marita Bonner
  • Epilogue: androgyny, fascism, and beyond.