Androgyny in Modern Literature

by Tracy Hargreaves Dr, T Hargreaves, T. Hargreaves

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349507946
• ISBN13: 9781349507948
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"