Androgyny in Modern Literature

by Tracy 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: 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"