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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 appropriat...

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Main Author: Hargreaves, Tracy (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Literature.
Cultural Theory.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Gender Studies.
Literary Theory.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Literature, Modern > 20th century.
Literature, Modern.
Sex (Psychology)
Sociology.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 202 pages)
ISBN:9780230510579
DOI:10.1057/9780230510579